Shadows of the Ruined Sun

The heavy black lockbox arrived by anonymous courier moments before the sky tore open. Inside was a jagged obsidian blade and a single directive: *Extract them*. When massive gates unleash impossible horrors upon the sprawling tech-metropolis of Oshur, Rheno Galt is immediately betrayed by a wealthy bully who throws him to the beasts to save himself. Rheno survives, buries the blade into his betrayer’s chest, and discovers his terrifying new gift. He doesn't raise rotting meat; he rips the shadow straight from the corpse, forging a pitch-black, eternally loyal soldier. As the apocalypse rages, Rheno carves a path of cold, calculated revenge against the elites who orchestrated the invasion. His power snowballs with every fallen boss, culminating in the execution of a hostile Gate Saintess who now heals his shadowy legion with corrupted dark light. But as Rheno closes in on the mastermind behind the gates, he uncovers a horrifying truth. The villain didn't open the gates to destroy humanity - he did it to force an evolutionary bottleneck, saving them from a far worse, approaching cosmic entity. Will Rheno abandon his vengeance to save a broken world, or will he let his shadow army consume it all?