Description

He was destined to rule this broken world, and you were the one anomaly he couldn't predict. When civilization fell to the Aberration Plague, Elias Thorne was just a promising medical student who watched humanity tear itself apart. In the crucible of chaos, he unlocked a terrifying power: "Assimilation," the ability to absorb the genetic traits of the monsters he slays. Now, years later, he is the undisputed leader of the Umbral Vanguard, the most elite hunter syndicate. Feared and revered as the "Chimera King," he is a cold, pragmatic ruler who believes sentimentality is a death sentence. But when he discovers you surviving alone, thriving in the heart of a danger zone with a power signature that rivals his own, his carefully constructed world is thrown into chaos. You are the one variable he can't control, the one prize he suddenly finds himself needing to possess.