In a world where monsters pour through dimensional rifts and hunters are humanity’s last hope, Kael was just another weak scavenger—until the dungeon that should’ve killed him... gave him power.

Left for dead. Betrayed by his own guild. Revived by a System born from the shadows.

Now, Kael doesn’t hunt monsters. He controls them.

With undead guardians at his command and a growing army of souls, Kael will climb through the ranks, infiltrate the corrupt guilds, and face the secret overlords ruling the portals—those known only as the System Lords.

They thought he was dead.
They were right… but something else came back.

"When they can't kill you, they will try to unmake you."


📍 Citadel – Ember Chain Network Chamber


Kael stood before the system interface node — a nexus of data cores, runes and pulse channels feeding into the world's central registry.


Ezrien paled. "That's not just identity theft. That's metaphysical deletion."


Rhaz: "He'll still exist… but not as Kael. No one will remember him. Not even himself."


> An Arconte-Class Entity is targeting your Name-Thread.


Countermeasure Required: Anchor Memory – User-Specific


Action: Lock your existence into others' minds.


📍 Mission Unlocked: Echoes of the Self


> Objective: Anchor your name by forging living bonds.


Save lives. Create meaning. Be remembered.


Failure Consequence: Permanent loss of identity and system alignment.


Kael clenched his fists. "So they want me erased… because I'm finally something they didn't plan for."


Over the next days, Kael traveled with Myrla and Nara to contested districts—saving, shielding, fighting.


In one raid, he rescued a dying healer who whispered, "Kael… I'll remember."


In another, he gave his shadow to protect a lost child.


> [Name Anchor Created – 6 new imprints logged]


Each person who remembered Kael stabilized his name-thread. The system pushed back the corruption—bit by bit.


📍 Inside the Mindspace – Dream Interference


He worked in a store. No one looked at him twice. He had no power. No enemies. No name.


> "Power made you a target. Obscurity made you safe."


He screamed — and the dream cracked apart like glass.


> [Resilience Confirmed – Memory Firewall Reconstructed]


You resisted mental overwrite. Your name is stabilized at 92%.


You now protect others from identity corruption within your domain.


📍 Final Scene – Corruption Spire, Zone Tharven


An Arconte watched from a jagged throne of shifting letters.


Half his body was made of fragmented code.


He whispered through someone else's mouth:


"Send the Echo Hunters. If I can't delete him from the system… I'll erase everyone who remembers."


Chapter 40 - A Name Worth Erasing