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 noticed it in the first few steps of the return journey — the familiar corridor he had descended through carrying none of the same quality it had possessed on the way in. Stone that had been solid and unremarkable now hung in loose fragments at the walls, dislodged from their positions by forces that had not bothered to be careful about the structural consequences. A thick layer of frost covered every surface — the ceiling, the floor, the walls, the scattered rock fragments — applied with the comprehensive, indiscriminate thoroughness of something that had not been deployed with precision but with feeling.


Lukas looked at it and his mouth formed the beginning of something that was not quite a smile.


Chapter 87 - First time using ice affinity