Tri path: Becoming Op
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Twelve years ago, the World System arrived and changed everything. The planet expanded to impossible proportions, monsters poured through rifts and portals, and humanity teetered on the brink of extinction. Some humans evolved, absorbing energy from the environment to reach Tier 1 and beyond, gaining the ability to wield spells and fight back. Cities became domed fortresses, and a global defense organization rose to protect what remained of civilization.
But not everyone made it to safety.
In a small faction of 200 survivors living in the forest, far from the protection of any dome, life is a constant struggle against a relentless spider monster and its swarm. When the faction’s leaders decide to sacrifice their weakest members to appease the beast long enough to mount an attack, they choose him—a calm, gentle man who never evolved, who never stood a chance.
Betrayed by those he trusted, he’s thrown into the spider’s cave. The creatures find him quickly. He dies slowly, dragged to their queen as food.
But death is not the end.
He awakens in a white void, facing three floating wisps: red (power through bloodshed), blue-gold (infinite knowledge and mastery of spells), and pale (limitless potential with no restrictions). He touches them all. He merges with them all.
And he is reborn.
Now resurrected in his own body with an unprecedented tri-system, he possesses abilities no other human has ever wielded: the power to grow stronger through destruction, the knowledge to copy, invent, rewrite, and merge any spell, and the limitless potential to transcend every boundary the World System imposes.
He will never be weak again. He will never be betrayed again.
His second life begins in the darkness of the spider’s den—and this time, he’s the predator.