Introduction: In the year 2020, the world was gripped by what they believed to be a pandemic. But it wasn鈥檛 a virus鈥攊t was something far worse. Mana, a foreign energy seeping through the fabric of reality, began to infect the world. It triggered madness, death, and a mysterious condition known only as mana sickness, killing millions. Then came the gates鈥攄ark, pulsing rifts into other worlds. From them poured horrors: Wendigos, Skinwalkers, Ghouls, Djinn, and worse鈥攎onsters born of nightmare and bone.Small towns fell first.In the coastal ruins of Hervey Bay, seventeen-year-old Malachai Voss is left behind in a ghost city sealed off and forgotten. Alone, wounded, and hunted by supernatural predators, he discovers something no one else has seen鈥攁n awakening deeper than mere survival. He doesn鈥檛 just gain powers. He sees the system. The fragments of his enemies are etched into him. Every kill shapes him. Every drop of blood draws him closer to becoming something not entirely human.A Reaper.With monsters swarming, gates breaking across Australia, and the dead piling high, Malachai must harness the terrifying strength growing inside him. The more he kills, the more he becomes like the things he hunts. As his class evolves, so does the darkness in him.But the real question isn鈥檛 how much power he can gain鈥擨t鈥檚 how much of his soul he鈥檚 willing to lose....