Mantle of the Scourge

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He barely cleared the lowest difficulty back on Earth. Now, he's expected to conquer star systems in a sprawling cosmic war, entombed within the unforgiving reality of a game he knows too well. Kaelen, once a casual gamer, wakes as Unit 734, a Chitin-clad Vanguard – a disposable, bio-engineered soldier in the colossal Verridian Legion. Dropped onto hostile worlds, his new body is designed for brute force and unquestioning obedience, alien to his human intellect. To survive, Kaelen must become the mask: he must embody the primal savagery and ruthless efficiency of his new 'species' more completely than any native-born warrior, all while concealing his human consciousness and strategic mind. He needs to leverage his forgotten knowledge to rise through the ranks of an empire that perceives him as a mere tool, transforming from an expendable grunt into a force capable of reshaping a galaxy. Failure means not just death, but eternal erasure within the indifferent machinery of cosmic conflict.