Reincarnated In A Ruined World

Human nature is straightforward: when flames rise, humanity will always sacrifice another for its own survival. Iver discovered this reality through painful experience. Abandoned in his youth, wrongfully accused of a crime he did not commit, and executed by a corrupt system, his first life concluded at the end of a noose. He did not die filled with rage or hope, but rather with a chilling, unwavering realization that the world was rigged. Then, he awakened. Reborn into the Waning Realm, a deteriorating world dominated by powerful imperial houses and clandestine cults, Iver finds himself cast aside once again. Born into House Vorne, the Empire's deadliest lineage of assassins, he bears the faint, pitiful mark of a worthless Axolotl spirit. Disgusted, his father expels him to a remote manor on the frozen, sunless edge of Requiem. They believe he is an insignificant failure. They are mistaken. At the age of ten, the altar stone fractures. The Axolotl spirit breaks open, unveiling what was concealed within—the Basilisk, a calamity-class taboo spirit capable of petrifying matter, wielding corrosive miasma, and consuming the spirit cores of his victims to inscribe their powers directly into his spine. Humanity seeks a savior. The Empire demands submission. The cults yearn for destruction. Iver cares nothing for any of it. He perceives his second life not as a blessing, but as a game orchestrated by higher powers, and he will not be a pawn again. To bow to no one, he must rise to the very pinnacle. And to reach the top, he must first comprehend himself. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Reincarnated In A Ruined World — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠