by john1208·Translated by Novel AI Studio
Kaspar Velt is the fiercely proud laughingstock of the Volya Institute. Born into a prestigious lineage of tamers, his capture rate sits at a humiliating zero percent. No matter how much he commands, the mutated horrors of the smog-wastes refuse to bow. But Kaspar’s prickly arrogance won't let him quit, even when a rogue bio-hound chases him into the academy's condemned scrap-depths. Cornered and bleeding, Kaspar blindly activates his [Dominate] skill on the hound. He misses the beast - and hits the titanium bulkhead behind it. To his horror, the metal liquefies, crawling up his arm and fusing with his torn flesh. Kaspar hasn't been failing to tame beasts; he misunderstood his own class. He isn't a master of monsters. He is the monster. By consuming and integrating rare alloys, he can endlessly upgrade his own body into an unstoppable, living weapon. When a radical faction breaches the academy to slaughter the elite, Kaspar's terrifying metallic metamorphosis obliterates the terrorists - only to inadvertently spawn a subterranean cult that worships his new form as a machine deity. Can Kaspar master his monstrous biology before the metal consumes his mind entirely?
