Ethan Crowe walked out of prison after seven years with nothing to his name and nowhere to belong.

The world he returned to was unrecognisable. 

Gates had torn open across the globe, monsters roamed beyond human control, and society now revolved around the Titled - people chosen by mysterious voices and granted supernatural powers that made them heroes, weapons, and rulers all at once.

Ethan wasn’t one of them.

Not at first.

Lost, angry, and with no future worth chasing, Ethan was barely surviving when a voice finally spoke to him.

"Your Title is… Lord Of Beasts."

But something about his awakening was wrong.

Instead of gaining power in the real world like every other Titled, Ethan awakened a System tied to the Tower Of Beasts - a brutal, game-like world he can only enter while asleep.

Inside the Tower, Ethan must fight for survival against monstrous creatures, earning power through a system of skills, evolution, and beasts.

As for the beasts he acquires there?

They persist beyond his dreams...

Registered as an E Rank Titled with only D Rank potential, Ethan should have been insignificant.

Yet the Lord of Beasts cannot be measured by ordinary standards.

As Ethan grows stronger at an impossible rate, his existence begins to ripple outward - drawing the attention of elite Titled, criminal syndicates, and forces lurking behind the Gates themselves.

His past refuses to stay buried, his beasts grow more dangerous, and the truth behind his Title hints at something far more terrifying than anyone realises.

In a world ruled by power, Ethan Crowe starts at the bottom.

But as the Lord of Beasts, it’s only a matter of time before he climbs to the top!


Note: The novel is a gritty version of the typical hunter/awakener novels with a beast twist, which I hope you will enjoy

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"I mean, it's pretty good," Ethan murmured while comfortably huddled against Wolfy's thick black fur, the giant Fenrir serving as both bodyguard and living blanket against the freezing winds of the tundra.


Compared to when he'd first awakened, they were insane, especially his mana.


However, it wasn't by chance that it was comfortably his highest attribute. It was the stat he relied on and trained the most by constantly exhausting his mana and pushing himself to the brink, before then using Beast Recovery.


His mana core almost behaved like a muscle. The more he strained it before allowing it to recover, the stronger it gradually became. Not to mention, every single stat point the System had ever awarded him had gone directly into MP.


But he didn't regret that decision in the slightest.


Chapter 275 - Skills