Only the Sword Remains: A Dark Progression Fantasy

Something has been taking the people he loves, and Caliban is the only human in his district who is strong enough stop it. The problem is he's been gone five years. The district he comes home to is no place for a man with anything left to protect. The strong feed on the weak, every favor comes due, and almost everyone Caliban left behind has a reason to want him dead. The thing taking his people is only the worst of what hunts him. But the five years were not wasted. He has one edge no one else can see, a power he carried back out of the dark, one that answers to no scale the district knows how to read. They think they know what he is. They are wrong. What to expect -Progression Fantasy -Cultivation elements with swordsmanship -System elements focused on Base Building -Found family -Steady release schedule What this story is not -No harem -No sex or explicit content -No isekai or reincarnation