On Awakening Day, They Mistook Me for the Third Monster

[Urban Superpowers] [Monster Evolution] [Ability Collection] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Covert Battles Between Organizations]

Ten years ago, monsters descended.

They devoured flesh and blood, merged with other creatures, and kept evolving. To fight them, humanity unearthed Star Martial fragments from ancient ruins and established awakening ceremonies.

Become an Awakened, and your life changes overnight.

After applying six times, Chen Ran finally won the chance to awaken.

He thought he could finally change his fate and get the money to treat his younger sister, but on the day of the awakening ceremony, monsters attacked.

On the brink of death, a mysterious weapon called "Zero" chose him.

Others could gain only one ability by merging with a Star Martial weapon.

But Chen Ran could increase his fusion rate by killing monsters, recording powers his body had personally endured: evolving bone spurs into bone claws, making wounds heal on their own, growing a monster's bone armor over his own body...

But when he killed a monster and excitedly thought he had finally become an Awakened, the Disaster Control Bureau's test results showed:

[No awakening power detected.]

[Monster response detected.]

In the eyes of the Disaster Control Bureau, he was a monster that had to be eliminated.

In the eyes of the Qiming Research Institute, he was an experimental subject worth cultivating with care.

And Chen Ran gradually realized that the Qiming Research Institute, which had saved his life, taken him in, and cured his younger sister, might not be as clean as it seemed.

Monsters evolved by eating people.

Chen Ran evolved by hunting monsters.

As for whether he was human or a monster wearing human skin...

Chen Ran believed only one thing:

As long as these claws were still protecting the people he wanted to protect, he was no monster.