Jake
When the sky broke, the world changed.
Monsters emerged from across the Earth, tearing through cities and turning familiar streets into hunting grounds. Governments struggled to respond, and humanity faced extinction.
Then came the Awakening.
A significant minority of people developed extraordinary powers and skills, giving humanity its first chance to fight back. New heroes rose from the chaos. Survivors formed teams. And for the first time, the monsters could bleed.
But Jake Adrian received nothing.
At twenty-one, he was an ordinary university student in Chicago, with no special ability to protect himself and no place among the newly awakened. In a world where power increasingly determined who lived and who died, Jake was just another helpless human.
Until a monster killed him.
Death should have been the end.
Instead, Jake awakened something no one else possessed: a mysterious System, and his first skill was {Immortality}.
Now he can return from deaths that should be final. But every resurrection carries a hidden cost, and something about his existence seems to attract the attention of creatures that should never recognize a human.
As Jake struggles to survive, protect the people he cares about, and understand the power he never asked for, he begins to uncover secrets buried beneath the apocalypse.
The world is changing.
The monsters are evolving.
And the man who cannot stay dead may be becoming something far more terrifying than the things hunting humanity.
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