In a world where monsters pour through dimensional rifts and hunters are humanity’s last hope, Kael was just another weak scavenger—until the dungeon that should’ve killed him... gave him power.

Left for dead. Betrayed by his own guild. Revived by a System born from the shadows.

Now, Kael doesn’t hunt monsters. He controls them.

With undead guardians at his command and a growing army of souls, Kael will climb through the ranks, infiltrate the corrupt guilds, and face the secret overlords ruling the portals—those known only as the System Lords.

They thought he was dead.
They were right… but something else came back.

"Sometimes, remembering is more dangerous than forgetting."


📍 Juren – Southern Quarantine Sector


Rain fell in slow, heavy sheets — unnatural, laced with mana disruption. The air buzzed with static.


Kael stood atop the ruined roof of an old hospital, watching as flickers of distortion spread across the sky like spiderwebs.


> [Warning: System Infiltration Detected]


[Echo Hunters Deployed – Target Class: Remembrance Anchor]


[Mission Update: Protect civilians with memory imprint]


Below, the city lights began to vanish… one block at a time.


📍 Elsewhere – A Candle in the Dark


An old woman named Lenari closed her shop for the night. She clutched a cracked pendant.


"Kael Ardan," she whispered. "The shadow that saved my grandson."


"They're killing people for remembering me."


Myrla: "They're cleansing identity trails. This is system warfare."


Ezrien gritted his teeth. "Then we strike first."


Nara: "No. We don't play by their rules. We shield our people."


Kael stood. "No more hiding. No more retreat."


Kael led a strike team of elite shadowbound across the ruins. Each target: an Echo Hunter. Each mission: protect memory witnesses.


The Hunters were not alive — they were algorithms in skin. Soulless, emotionless, efficient.


Myrla faced one in a library — its weapon? A blade of red script that severed thoughts.


She won, but left with a scar in her mind: she forgot her sister's face for hours.


One had taken the shape of the child he had saved.


[Resist – Shadowforge Bond: Activated]


His shadows surged — not just to destroy, but to protect. The children survived. Kael didn't smile.


📍 Later – Memory Shelter, Hidden Bunker


Kael looked her in the eyes. "Maybe. But I'll always be in the shadow behind you."


Creates a passive memory echo in those you protect, immune to first-level deletion.


Passive: Your name now resists system corruption by presence alone.


📍 Final Scene – Arconte Echo Chamber


Vel'Zhara stood before a pool of silence — a mirror of broken time.


"His name persists," he said, voice coiled with restrained hatred. "Even in those minds…"


Another Arconte appeared beside him — taller, clad in bronze and bone. A mask with three faces.


"He's rewriting the rule of recall," the masked one said. "He's making himself real in a world where he should be code."


Chapter 41 - The Echo Hunters