The Unwanted Champion

**When the gods choose a champion, they don't make mistakes. Usually.** Axel King should have died in that car crash. Instead, he wakes up in a world of magic, monsters, and divine politics—marked as the champion of Merana, Goddess of Mana. There's just one problem: she didn't choose him. Merana had reached for his mother's soul, a woman of proven strength and unwavering competence. What she got instead was a twenty-year-old nobody with no combat training, no magical talent, and an unfortunate tendency to put everyone else's needs before his own. Now Axel is dropped in the Withered Reach, a corrupted wilderness where the trees are sick and the very air fights back. Armed with nothing but sharp rock and a healing ability that barely works, he must survive long enough to reach civilization—assuming he can find it. Caught between a goddess who views him as a cosmic error and a System that expects him to level up or die, Axel faces an impossible choice: become the ruthless champion Merana wanted, or forge his own path in a world that rewards only strength. *The first book in an epic LitRPG series. With a Level System that progresses through ones creativity and skill*