
by Yuma123
When the System descends, it does not choose heroes—it assigns roles. Ethan Vale is not given a blade, a spell, or a class built to kill. He is handed something far worse: management. In a ruined city where office workers become prey and the rules of survival twist into something cold and unreadable, Ethan can only classify the living, ration the dying, and interpret a System that seems less interested in saving people than in deciding how much they are worth. As monsters stalk the darkened halls and panic spreads through the remaining survivors, every command he issues carries a cost. Every person he marks, every resource he reallocates, every rule he bends drags him deeper into a nightmare where authority feels like a curse and structure is just another word for control. In this apocalypse, the most terrifying thing may not be what’s hunting them—but the fact that the System has already decided who can be used, who can be discarded, and who will be broken first.
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