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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 · แฟนตาซี
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116 Chs

Sacrificial

When Alex woke up there was nobody in the room with him and the healer had seemingly done everything he needed to considering the state of Alex's left hand. The damage had been completely healed from a visual perspective but there was still the risk that his hand wouldn't be fully functional.

Like every other User in the lower cities, the healers were at most E rank and this meant their power had limitations that the more powerful healers in other cities didn't have. It was common for an injury to only be partially healed and in some cases the only thing the healers could do was heal the injury from a cosmetic point of view, leaving the damaged area without functionality.

Alex tried to open and close his hands a few times, comparing the left and right in how they felt. His heart dropped when an obvious disparity between either hand was felt, the injury was definitely not healed completely.