Lukas lived his entire life as a failure, always chasing empty thrills and never becoming anything of worth. When his life ended suddenly, all he felt was regret—regret that things might have been different if he had chosen to work harder.

But death was not the end.

Reborn into the body of another young man who shared his name, Lukas awakens in a strange and unfamiliar world. There, he gains a talent the world itself has branded as trash: a fragile undead skeleton with bones weaker than glass, a potential so pitiful it should never have existed.

By all rights, his fate should have been nothing more than that of a laborer, struggling through odd jobs just to survive.

Yet there was a twist.

After his first battle, Lukas discovers that his skeleton can absorb the bones of other creatures and steal their talents.

[Ding! Your Skeleton has absorbed the chest bone of an Epic-Grade Fire Phoenix.]

[Ding! You have learned the innate skill of the Fire Phoenix: Wings of Nirvana.]

And that is not all—it can evolve those stolen talents as well.

[Wings of Nirvana has evolved into the Ultimate-Grade skill: Eternal Rebirth.]

From that moment on, every enemy Lukas faces becomes nothing more than nourishment for his skeleton, pushing him step by step toward godhood.

Lukas had processed enough unexpected developments in a short enough span of time that his capacity for surprise had been tested considerably in recent hours. He had thought, somewhere in the back of his awareness, that this testing had produced a degree of resilience — that the threshold for genuine astonishment had been raised by accumulated experience.


Tommy's bloodline awakening cleared that threshold without apparent effort.


Chapter 72 - Chosen one