[WARNING: This book contains adult content.]

 Kai was the best underground fighter alive.

Then he slipped on a wet floor and died. Classic.

He woke up in Aethon — a world of magic, legendary weapons, and monsters that level cities — with zero mana, zero sword skills, and one ability the System itself couldn't classify:

[Martial Arts Mastery — UNRANKED]

Then he killed a Rank-B beast with one punch. Live. On stream. In front of forty thousand viewers from his home world who had nothing better to do on a Tuesday.

Now he's the most-watched streamer on two worlds, his viewer gifts are funding an ability tree no one has ever seen, and something in his combat aura is doing something it absolutely should not be doing.

SSS-rank entities — creatures that haven't moved in centuries — are walking toward him.

Not to fight.

The System has no category for what they want. It just keeps sending the same alert:

[WARNING: SSS-Rank entity has marked you as a compatible mate]
[Current count: 1]
[Kai: ...]

He just wanted to punch things and hit 100,000,000k followers.
This is not what he signed up for.

The northern sector sun hadn't risen yet when the two hundred fifty-three formed up.


The vapor of breath in the cold early morning air.


[DraconicLegacy]: it's 4am here. I don't care. I'm not leaving.


[Stephen_Summers]: I just got here with my cold dinner because I didn't dare heat anything up in case I missed something.


[Warwolf]: ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ viewers rising at 4am. this is the power of Kai.


[Martin_Wiersmar]: 253 in formation before dawn. that was well planned. Drak learned from Mara.


[Leo_Willis]: the vapor of breath in the cold air. I can see them from here.


[ShonqezThomas22]: a different late-night chat. the ones who are here are the ones who really follow the stream.


[DraconicLegacy]: someone count how many are on Mara's side because I don't want to do the math.


Two weeks of watching Mara fight, laugh, and get into a lake.


Two weeks of processing what that meant.


Chapter 117 - The Dawn