Introduction: Eryk Blakely is off. For his entire life, he has been unable to experience any form of human emotion. Wading through life looking for something that makes him feel. On the night of the end-of-the-year school party, a bullied student shows up wearing a demon mask and starts killing people with laser beams. The chaos and destruction causes Eryk to awaken an ability of his own. He can permanently steal other people's powers. And it comes with an additional effect, it takes a piece of their personality as well. At that moment, everything clicks. He may not have any emotions of his own, but he now has a way to steal them. Eryk will do anything to gather more pieces. He will steal, cripple, manipulate, cheat, and claw his way to the top of a mountain of corpses. Nobody is safe.This story does have heroes, but Eryk is not one of them.What to expect:-Faction/Organization Building-Intelligent/Calculating MC-Slow burn, step-by-step rise to power-Interesting 3-dimensional cast of characters-Neutral Evil protagonist...