Absorption

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Upload schedule M/W/F/S/S In a world where the System has ruled for over ten thousand years, every child awakens on their sixteenth birthday with an Innate Skill. For most, that Skill defines their place in society. For Max, an orphan, no money, and no future, it becomes a sentence. When Max awakens with Absorption , a rare one-word Innate Skill with no obvious limits and no clear instructions, he is quickly cast out of the orphanage that raised him. Starving on the streets and arrested for stealing food, Max expects to be sent to the mines and forgotten. Instead, he is claimed by the brutal Red Order , an ancient knightly force that turns criminals, outcasts, and the desperate into weapons against monsters, demons, and the horrors that stalk the edges of civilisation. At Blackhold, names are stripped away. Recruits become numbers. Training is merciless. Failure means death. Max is forced to fight, kill, and survive alongside other broken recruits while learning the terrible truth of his power: Absorption does not simply make him stronger. It hungers. Relics, memories, fear, pain, and even death itself begin to call to him. Each new power he takes makes him more useful to the Order — and more dangerous to everyone around him. When Max is selected by Knight Vaelith Mourne , a feared vampire knight in gothic black armour who hunts demons and sentient monsters, he is taken beyond Blackhold’s walls and into a darker world of hidden markets, city-state politics, cursed relics, and creatures that wear civilisation like a mask. Mourne believes Max’s hunger resembles that of her own kind. Without guidance, he may become a monster. With guidance, he might become something worse. Or something strong enough to survive. As an ancient relic stirs near the Free Cities and leaves behind the scent of hunger, Max must learn what to take, what to refuse, and what parts of himself are worth protecting before Absorption consumes more than just his enemies.

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