Echoes of an Ancient System
Ethan Cross’s life was already a mess.
Twenty-five years old, freshly fired, broke, and drifting through life with no real purpose. When his car flew off a cliff on a rainy night, he thought his story had finally come to an end.
He was wrong.
He wakes up in a dark cavern, lying on a stone altar in the middle of the shattered ruins of an underground ancient city.
The air stinks of mold, the silence is unnatural… and the body he’s in isn’t even his.
Black hair. Black eyes. A frail, half-starved eighteen-year-old stranger stares back at him from the surface of a murky pool.
No status screen.
No tutorial.
No overpowered skills.
Just a weak body, a forgotten ruin, and a desperate search for an exit.
Everything changes when his blood touches a small, freezing metal cube buried in the rubble.
A blinding light fills his vision, and a cold mechanical female voice echoes inside his mind:
“Suitable host detected!.”
Ethan has become the new host of an ancient System—one that doesn’t feel like it was designed for heroes, but for something far more dangerous.
Power comes with a price.
Quests are not optional.
And in this world, not everyone is meant to know the System even exists.
Trapped in a borrowed body, in an unknown world, guided by a mysterious and emotionless System, Ethan must decide:
Will he become the System’s pawn… or learn how to bend it to his own will?
