The Advent of the Beast Hero

Mark Locke expected death to be the end; instead, a god of beasts and survival offers him one job: become the Fifth Cardinal Hero and give a doomed world back its chance. Armed with the Legendary Beast Weapon, Mark can harvest traits from monsters and rebuild himself into increasingly dangerous forms. Unfortunately, the world he half-remembers from The Rising of the Shield Hero is only a distorted reflection, already warped by cosmic predators, foreign species, and survivors from dead realities.