Dimensional Overlap

What if the end of the world was just the beginning? --- Sixty seconds. That's all it took for everything to change. The sky ripped open. Roads became alien landscapes. Monsters poured through the cracks in reality. Millions died in that single minute—including Ji-hu's parents, trapped in a sinking car while he fought to save his little sister. But some survived. And those who survived changed. They awakened with powers tied to what they endured during that minute. Fire for those who burned. Water for those who drowned. Strength for those who refused to die. They became hunters, organized into guilds, ranked from F to S. The weak protected the walls. The strong ventured into the Overlap Zones—places where Earth had permanently merged with other dimensions—to push back the monsters and reclaim lost ground. Ji-hu's sister Hana awakened the next day. She became a prodigy. The youngest S-rank in history. Ji-hu awakened three years later. Too late. Too weak. D-rank, the lowest rung, with unstable powers that sputter when he needs them most. While Hana fights alongside legends, Ji-hu sits in a watchtower and rings a bell when monsters approach. But something happened in that water. Something the guilds don't know about. Something even he doesn't understand. A mark appeared on his arm the night he killed that creature. It's been there ever since—curving lines like a brand, pulsing with heat every time a Convergence opens. It doesn't show up on any test. It doesn't fit any known theory. And it's making him grow twice as fast as he should. Now, with a found family of outcasts and a mysterious woman who sees something in him that no one else can, Ji-hu is done watching from the tower. The gap between him and his sister is closing—slowly, invisibly, inevitably. But the world is changing again. Bigger threats are coming. And the rift in the sky is still there, hanging like a scar, watching, waiting. No one knows what's on the other side. But Ji-hu is about to find out. --- A story about family, loss, and the long climb from nothing. About the marks we carry—visible and hidden—that shape our fate. And about what happens when the monsters aren't just the ones coming through the rift.