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Devoran

The power to devour death and enhance yourself. That is the power that Alex Rune received. An apocalyptic event occurred several generations ago that forced humanity to retreat underground in order to avoid extinction. Now all that remains of the human race lives within a series of five cities, with each city being built deeper than the last. In these cities everyone was equal and your only value to society was dependant on what you provided towards the survival of humanity. Of course, as anyone could have guessed, equality didn't last long. people started to create a social hierarchy based on what they could provide and soon enough capitalism had been reinstated. A few generations went by and the surface had all but been forgotten. Nobody cared for it, nobody longed for it. The surface might as well have been a fairy tale. It was around this time that another shift occurred within society, something that tossed the hierarchy onto it's head. Abilities. People started to develop supernatural abilities that allowed them to defy the laws of nature. Flight, teleportation, super strength and many more. It didn't take long for a new hierarchy to be formed, one that put these ability 'Users' at the top of the food chain. This brings us to the present day, where a young man nearing adulthood discovers that he possesses one of these abilities during a rather stressful moment. The ability he received? The ability grow stronger with each life he takes. This alone was a surprise, as he should have been too old to receive an ability, but the surprise didn't end there. It turns out than when Alex kills someone who possesses an ability, he can take it for himself. Now that he has the means to achieve greatness, he throws away his old self and embraces his need to kill, to grow stronger by any means necessary. Money hungry corporations, power drunk ability Users, this story has it all. Now get reading ;)

MagusRex · Fantasy
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116 Chs

Delayed Improvement

Alex woke up after an incredibly uncomfortable nights sleep. He was constantly tossing and turning and drifted in and out of sleep over and over again. He didn't know what the cause was but he had never slept so poorly in his life.

'Even my neck is sore, was I lying in a weird way or something? Is that why I couldn't sleep?' Alex stood up, stretching his neck and other sore muscles while walking to the bathroom.

As Alex turned into the bathroom he was greeted by his own reflection in the mirror above the basin. This wouldn't be strange except for the fact that his body didn't look the same as before.

His body had become a bit larger than before in terms of muscle mass and those very same muscles held some decent definition to them as well. Alex had gone from looking like a living mummy to mimicking an amateur swimmer.