I Who Walked the Underworld Will One Day Become a God

[Ensemble Cast] [Siblings] [Plot-Driven] [Romance] [Dark Story] [Redemption] [Urban Superpowers] [Wits and Strategy] [Twists] [Politics] [Class] [Revolution]

A parallel universe, Black Dragon District, Jianghai City.

After the X-virus outbreak, half of humanity turned into beasts. Among the survivors, the Awakened became darlings of the Federal Association, while the Beastified, branded “social cancer” under the Incarceration Regulations, could only hide in the slums and eke out a living by smuggling X-serum.

Zhao Yu and his younger sister, Zhao Lan, are Beastified. He has no revolutionary ideals and believes in no grand narratives. His only wish is to save enough for boat tickets and escape to Sakura District, where restrictions are less severe.

But fate gives him no chance. A mission to rob a shipment of X-serum puts him in the sights of three forces at once: the Federal Association’s ABV, the Taiping Cult, which makes its living off corpses, and the Freedom Alliance, which hopes to win room to survive through reform.

The Taiping Cult says: “Only revolution can overthrow oppression.”

The Freedom Alliance says: “Only negotiation can win us territory.”

The Federal Association says: “You’re all expendable.”

Zhao Yu just wants to say: “What’s any of this got to do with me?”

But when tanks roll over crowds of petitioners, and the old woman who knelt in the pouring rain never gets back up, he discovers that the boat tickets in his pocket are being soaked with his own blood.

This is the story of a rat running beneath the feet of giants. He doesn’t know whether he’ll become a hero, but he knows that if he doesn’t run, he’ll die.