Shardbound Ascension

When failed dungeon porter Kael Venn dies under a collapsing raid, he expects oblivion—not a forbidden respawn inside the tutorial zone of the World-System that governs all life. Branded with a glitched class no one has seen before, Kael gains the power to absorb shattered boss cores and rewrite pieces of his own skill tree. The catch: every upgrade draws the attention of the Admins, immortal system-enforcers who erase anomalies before they become threats.

Armed with a broken interface, a sarcastic soulbound mimic, and a party of misfits who should never have survived past Level 5, Kael claws his way through lethal dungeons, faction wars, evolving monsters, and loot-crazed adventurers. But each boss he defeats reveals the same impossible truth: the System is not a gift from the gods—it is a prison built around something waking beneath the world.

To ascend, Kael must break the rules everyone else worships. To save his party, he may have to become the final raid boss.