Shadow Requiem
In the year 2047, humanity lives beneath an unspoken terror. Without warning, young people vanish in flashes of blinding light, dragged into the Requiem Games—a parallel realm where survival is currency and death is recycled into something far worse. Those who return come back broken. Most never return at all.
Sun Li was already dying when he was chosen.
A chronically ill slum rat with no future and nothing to lose, Sun Li enters the Games with a body on the brink of collapse and no formal training. While others rely on strength, wealth, and preparation, he survives through patience, observation, and an iron will forged by lifelong suffering. In the Crimson Thicket, the tutorial realm meant to weed out the weak, Sun Li does the unthinkable—defeating an elite guardian alone and uncovering the Requiem’s cruel truth: death is not the end, but a transformation.
The fallen are reborn as monsters.
Marked as the Shadow of the First Trial, Sun Li escapes the tutorial domain with a forbidden title, an exclusive class path, and enemies that already fear his presence. Alongside an enigmatic rival-turned-ally, Dio, and a girl trapped between humanity and mutation, Sun Li enters the true Requiem world—vast, merciless, and ruled by sovereign beasts and rival players alike.
But the Requiem is not merely a game.
It is a self-sustaining ecosystem of evolution, where trials are designed to create kings, sacrifices, and legends. As factions rise, domains awaken, and ancient Sovereigns begin to take notice, Sun Li must decide what he will become: another disposable pawn… or the shadow that hunts gods.
In a world where strength is everything and mercy is fatal, the weakest man may become the deadliest predator.
Survive. Evolve. Or be consumed.
