Introduction: Every Kill Buys You Time. Every Choice Costs Your Soul.Welcome to the Game of Life and DeathWhen the world collapses overnight, 18-year-old Ezra Cain awakens to a new reality: every breath he takes now comes with a countdown.With a mysterious system embedded in his chest and a single rule to survive - kill to live - Ezra is thrust into a brutal game where years of life are the only prize worth killing for. Armed with nothing but a rusted pipe and a sharpened instinct, he must navigate a city teetering between chaos and annihilation, stalked by monsters in human skin and secrets older than the collapse itself.But something watches him. Something ancient. Something... waiting. Would you take a life to gain a lifetime?...