Blood Predator's Ascent
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Draven Ashmore has one thing the Sentinel Academy never wanted — his last name.
Son of Cedric Ashmore, the only S+ ranked Sentinel in all of Eryndal and the most powerful man alive, Draven should have been born with everything. Instead, he was born without the one thing that matters — the ability to use magic. His ring never connected. His rank was never recorded. In a world measured from S+ to F, Draven doesn't even reach F.
Unranked. Powerless. A disgrace to the Ashmore name.
He remains in the academy on borrowed time, tolerated only because of his father's name — and ignored by that same father entirely. His professors resent his presence. His classmates don't bother learning his name. And the director has quietly made a decision: Draven Ashmore needs to go.
When his professor arranges a surprise exam inside a gray rift — the simplest, safest kind there is — it isn't an opportunity. It's an execution. A chance to fail publicly and get expelled without anyone asking questions.
But nothing inside that rift goes as planned.
Trapped within an ancient ritual alongside something old and endlessly hungry, Draven watches his entire group die one by one. And when nothing is left — no allies, no magic, no way out — something finds him in the dark and offers a deal.
"Survive. Feed me. Or become the meal yourself."
Now Draven carries a mark burned into his skin that pulses with every heartbeat, a system that demands blood quotas he can barely meet, and a secret that would destroy what little he has left if anyone ever found out.
He can't use magic. He has no allies. His own family has already written him off.
But he's still breathing.
And he'll make sure every person who ever looked through him lives to regret it.
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