Shop of the Dead: Shattered Souls - Chapter 33: Burning Agony

Thalion’s life as a marine biologist was modest in wealth but rich in joy and fulfillment. The arrival of the system sent everyone on Earth into a tutorial while merging it with four other planets. Not everything was bad, though. The system granted people magic and even ways to defy time itself. For now, everyone struggles to survive the tutorial, which has become more of a slaughter trial than a learning experience.If you like stories with Shapeshifters and Bloodmages. Check this out!!! A post-apocalyptic LitRPG series inspired by The Primal Hunter, Defiance of the Fall, and Elden Ring.Release Schedule:Five chapters a week. (Wordcount between 2,000 and 3,000)Also, this novel is posted on Royal Road and Patreon with Patreon being up to 60 chapters ahead of the Royal Road release.What to expect:-Multi-POV Storytelling but mostly main character-Adaptive Magic System – The magic evolves based on the wielder, making every spellcaster’s abilities truly unique.-No harem-Entities Beyond Humanity-Expansive Worldbuilding

Arriving in a new world where the steam industry was booming, he inherited a three-story apartment on the capital’s royal square, took in someone else’s cat, and listened to the whispers at his ear, ready to witness this mysterious and bizarre era. The epic of the Sixth Era was about to commence, and behind the curtain, The Chosen One was destined to step into legend. Old Gods, Relics, steam, witches, detectives, ancient secrets, the Era’s brilliance... “Would you like to play a round of Roder Cards?” Time engraved the hours, as Silvermoon illuminated the shadows. I compose your legend, you whisper your verses to me.

Leonardo Anderson awakened one of the rarest Classes in existence — Beast Tamer.It should have been the beginning of his rise.Instead, it became the reason he was betrayed.Framed for stealing an A-Class Monster egg, stripped of his rights, and sentenced to lose his Class to the most powerful family in City Z, Leonardo was supposed to disappear quietly.But on the day everything was taken from him—A new System awakened.One that allows him to add a new talent or skill to his monster every single day.An ordinary owl becomes an S-Class predator.A fugitive becomes something far more dangerous.In a city where Awakeners kill each other in the shadows and justice belongs to the rich, Leonardo has only one rule:Survive.Level up.And never be powerless again.