Devour: The Skill Eater's Path

Hunters kill monsters for cores. Raze Ashen eats them. His unique ability [Devour] lets him consume monster cores raw — absorbing not just their energy but their skills, instincts, and evolutionary traits. A wolf core gives him [Pack Sense]. A dragon core gives him [Fire Breath]. A hydra core gives him [Regeneration]. But each skill consumed reshapes his body and mind. Eat too many predator cores and the hunger never stops. Eat too many beast cores and human thoughts grow distant. Raze is becoming the ultimate monster — a human who has eaten his way to the top of the food chain. The guilds want to study him. The governments want to contain him. And somewhere in the deepest dungeon, there's a monster that has been eating hunters the same way — and it's been doing it for much, much longer. Expect pulse-pounding combat, high-stakes confrontations, and characters pushed to their physical and mental limits. The action sequences are detailed and visceral, with each battle raising the tension.