Chimera Boy: I Can Acquire All the Spirit Animals’ Skills!
In the world of Hirayi, your soul has a shape, and your destiny has a name.
For a thousand years, the sacred well known as the Bátis has been the ultimate judge of worth. On the millennial anniversary of the Spirit Animal Awakening, thousands of youths gather with a singular dream: to be chosen by a Gabay, a spirit companion that grants power, status, and a place in history.
Leib has spent his lonely life preparing for this moment. An orphan of the Spinewoods, he didn't want wealth or crowns, he wanted the bond he had dreamt of since he was a child. He expected a companion. He expected a future.
He didn't expect the sky to turn black.
While two others receive the blessing of Mythical beasts, beings of shimmering opal and ten-tailed majesty, Leib is met with a terrifying anomaly.
Instead of a creature of light, a formless shadow erupts from the Bátis and buries itself in his chest. No animal appears. No bond is formed. The sacred well goes cold and dead, leaving Leib with a hollow void where his spirit should be.
Now, swept away to the gilded halls of the Kingdom of Paraiso alongside the new elite, Leib must navigate a world that views him as a broken omen.
Haunted by a darkness he cannot control and a depression that threatens to swallow him whole, he begins to realize that the Bátis didn't skip him.
It gave him something ancient.
Something hungry.
Something that hasn't walked the Hirayi in a thousand years.
In a world of light and legend, what happens to the boy who was chosen by the dark?
~~~If you want to know the system and tiers that the novel has, read Auxiliary Chapter 1.