That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Gorilla Gorilla

Sometime around 2000 years ago, the first Ascension flower bloomed underneath the all-encompassing World Tree. Its blossoming gave rise to a new race of humans.

The Ascendants, more aptly called animal shifters, or Ani-shifters.

According to human records, the first Ani-shifter appeared after eating the first Ascension flower, a bright devilishly purple flower, enabling him to evolve and gain a human form, and granting him power beyond any being's imagination.

He then wreaked havoc on the hinterlands of the human territories bordering the World Tree's territories. As the dust settled, the irrevocable fact started the ever growing divide between the new breed of human hybrids and the pure humans.

Today, Ascension flowers have become hot commodities for all three groups. Animals are wired to want and eat the flower even if it costs them their lives, by some of the lingering primal instincts in their genes. Shifters defend those flowers with their pride, and lives, for their animal brethren to take a bite. Meanwhile, humans take Ascension flowers for both their own benefit, and to stop the advance of the rising Ani-shifter kingdoms.

Draken Alpha was one of the greatest prodigies of the pure human race and was already one of the Ten Legion Commanders of the unstoppable Sunset Legion at a young age. His unparalleled ruthlessness, and adaptability made him among the most fearsome human generals to face in a battlefield.

An ambush for a newly spawned Ascension flower turns his world upside down and thrusts him straight into the world of the other side.

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Cover is the legendary gorilla Harambe, shot down in Cincinnati Zoo a few years ago. RIP.

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