Reborn: Rise to Apex
When Earth shifted, the apocalypse started, all thanks to the System. Incursions tore through cities, dungeons rooted themselves in streets and mountains, beasts poured out of fresh rifts, alien races stepped through glowing thresholds—Earth changed, and everything came rushing in to take advantage.
Elias had lost everyone he loved in his first life.
Elias Harper went from goofy teenager to battle-hard veteran, climbing raid after raid until he stood at the cusp of greatness. He was set to join the apex cultivators of Earth even with his shitty bond. His enlightenment was top notch—he comprehended a true path: battle. Every fight, every close call, every shattered dungeon floor pushed that path deeper, sharper, more complete. Those in power saw what he carried and still refused to share with Elias, keeping their secrets and resources wrapped up tight. Then his lover turned on him, betrayal sliding in where affection used to sit, and he lost his life.
A hundred years later, a random good deed from that first life triggered something buried deep. Elias found himself reborn because of a cursed ring that had taken up one of his equipment slots, a ring he had always thought useless yet could never remove. At seven years old he sat in an orphanage in his new life, waiting for an uncle to come take him away. His dad had died, his mother had disappeared, and the System still loomed over everything. One thing drove him above all else now: Elias would seek apex again, and he would drag answers into the light—answers tied to his own life and answers about the greater universe beyond Earth.
