Fifty years ago, Gates tore open the sky and changed the world forever. 

Monsters poured into Earth, and humanity adapted by awakening as Hunters. From that chaos, a new world order was born—governed by power, ranked by strength, and controlled by mysterious divine beings known only as the Gods.

Kai Ren rose through this broken world to become the strongest Hunter in existence. He fought through endless Gates, survived countless wars, and reached the peak of human evolution. 

But at the very end of his journey, he discovered the horrifying truth:
Humanity was never meant to win.

The Gods had been watching all along—not as protectors, but as creators treating the world as entertainment. Every struggle, every death, every victory… was just part of their experiment.

Kai’s strength meant nothing in front of them.

And in the end, he was killed—his existence erased by divine hands.
But instead of dying completely…
Kai Ren wakes up in the past.
Twenty years earlier.

Before the final collapse.

Before the Gods fully revealed themselves.
Before humanity lost everything.
And most importantly…

Before the Awakening Ceremony, the event that determines every Hunter’s future and silently sets the stage for divine control.
This time, Kai is not weak.
He remembers everything.

Future Gates. Hidden dungeons. Legendary treasures. The rise and fall of S-rank Hunters. And the exact path that leads humanity into ruin.
But he is not the same man who once fought for survival.

He is a man who has seen the end.
A system awakens inside him—an anomaly beyond divine control known as the Divine Error System, granting him abilities that defy the laws imposed by the Gods themselves.

Now, Kai has only one goal:
Not to become a hero.
Not to save the world.
But to break the cycle completely.
To grow stronger than fate.
Stronger than the system.
Stronger than the Gods themselves.
So that this time…

he doesn’t just survive the ending.
He destroys the one who wrote it.

They gave humans power… only to turn them into pawns.


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