Isolated Ascension

​"I didn't get a 'System.' I didn't get a 'Cheat.' All I got was a six-year-old’s body and a forest full of nightmares." ​When an eighteen-year-old athlete collapses during a high-stakes basketball game, he expects the end. Instead, he wakes up to the bone-chilling roar of a prehistoric predator and the sight of his own tiny, trembling hands. ​Transmigrated into a high-fantasy world of elemental monsters and fire-spitting beasts, he finds himself at the absolute bottom of the food chain. There is no blue screen to guide him, no leveling up by killing slimes, and no divine voice granting him powers. He is a child lost in a verdant prison where even the shadows have teeth, and he can't even remember his own name. ​But he hasn't forgotten his old life. Armed with the logic of Earth’s physics and a deep knowledge of the cultivation and magic novels he once read for fun, he decides to reverse-engineer the laws of this world. ​If the air is thick with mana, he will learn to breathe it. If the monsters are strong, he will use his mind to outpace them. From a lonely cave on a jagged cliffside, a young boy begins a grueling journey of self-forged power. ​No System. No Mercy. Just raw intelligence and the will to survive. In a world where gods and monsters rule the sky, one "Isolated" child will prove that the greatest "Ascension" is the one you build with your own two hands.