In the twenty-fourth year of the Spiritual Tide, a beast horde breaches the city walls.
Jiang Ye, an F-rank nobody, is gravely wounded by a Tier Three monster while saving the child next door. As he hovers on the brink of death, a black mass burrows into his body.
When he opens his eyes again, a foul-mouthed voice has appeared in his head: "Tastes good, kid. Bring me another one."
From then on, he can devour monsters' cores. Whatever he eats, he becomes. The price is that each time he eats, he forgets something that makes him "human."
At the martial arts exam, he poses as a weakling who barely passes the strength test. During his entrance physical, he makes his heart stop for three minutes. His roommate's ancestral demon-slaying blade hums at him every night.
Everyone thinks he's a nobody who got in through connections.
Only he knows the truth: an ancient ferocious beast has slipped into the ranks of the freshman class at the nation's top martial arts university.
