Global Awakening: Starting at E-Rank, I Devour Everything

Thirty years after strange beasts returned, humanity has retreated to twelve bases, barely clinging to survival.

Everyone awakens at eighteen, and their ability rank determines everything. Those ranked D or above receive a stipend and move into the residential zone. E-rankers? They haul goods and sweep floors in the fringe zone, no better off than those who never awakened.

On the day Lin Ye awakens, the awakening stone shows no reaction, and he is rated an E-rank failure. The children of the elite humiliate him in public, his mother’s medical bills are unpaid, and he can’t even afford a roasted sweet potato from the corner stall.

No one knows that another power lies hidden in his palm:

The Heaven-Swallowing Physique. Devour the core crystals of strange beasts, and his abilities evolve without limit.

A C-rank Ironback Beast barges into the fringe zone? He lays a hand on it, and in three seconds it’s sucked dry.

A B-rank fire genius tramples him in public? He grabs their wrist, drains their energy, and leaves them sprawled on the ground.

Everyone says E-rankers are useless.

Until the day Lin Ye stands outside the base’s central zone, glances down at the vortex pattern in his palm, then looks up and asks:

“Tell me, what rank would I be if I swallowed this wall too?”