Fantasy

At eighteen, every Lord awakens a god.
    Cassian Vale awakened a grave.
    [F-Rank: Patronless Grave Lord]
    [Initial Territory: Abandoned Dawn Mausoleum]
    [Protector God: None. Starting Troops: None.]
    The strongest newcomer offered to save him—for three years of service, forty percent of everything he earned, and first claim over every divine relic hidden in his territory.
    Cassian almost accepted.
    But he refused to sell an unopened grave for the price of an empty one.
    Inside the mausoleum, he found Veyra, a shattered Goddess of Dawn and War, chained to a dead divine throne. Around her waited the creatures sent to erase her last traces from the world.
    When Cassian killed the first divine warden, an authority that should not exist awakened inside him.
    [Unique SSS Talent Awakened: Divine Devourer]
    [Slay divine beings.]
    [Devour their divinity.]
    [Strengthen your body, awaken your territory, and evolve the goddesses who enter your covenant.]
    Every god Cassian devours becomes part of his power.
    Every goddess he restores unlocks a new divine authority.
    Every ruined shrine he conquers becomes another foundation of his growing dominion.
    The F-rank failure soon rises to first place on the Newcomer Divine Essence Ranking.
    But the gods Cassian devours do not resurrect.
    Ancient churches begin to notice the permanent deaths. Forgotten divine armies stir beneath his territory. And every goddess he saves carries her own throne, enemies, pride—and price.
    Cassian was once offered a place beneath an A-rank Lord.
    Instead, he will build a realm where even gods must earn the right to possess divinity.