The Last Safe Mile

When the sky splits open and the System brands humanity for integration, cities become feeding grounds and every road turns into a dungeon. In the first hour, former combat medic Mara Voss watches her ambulance crew die under a wave of things wearing human faces. Her only reward for surviving is a broken class no one else can see: Triage Warden, a healer-tank hybrid that grows stronger by saving the doomed—and by absorbing the deaths she fails to prevent.

Mara leads a convoy of strangers toward Milepost 77, a rumored safe zone carved out around an abandoned interstate service plaza. But sanctuary comes with laws, taxes, class conscription, and a faction leader who treats survivors like inventory. As monster waves evolve, safe zones shrink, and the System begins offering quests with human sacrifices hidden in the fine print, Mara must decide what kind of monster she is willing to become to keep her people alive.