This will be an entry for Royal Road's Fall 2025 Writathon. I will post the full first chapter after getting the book set up into the writathon. See you there, so to speak! See the blurb below.

  Dan Trench was starving rushing between two jobs that barely afforded him the life he could accept. Then the lights went out - and he found himself part of an unrelenting System. To his horror, he can’t even say human.

  He doesn’t qualify.

  Then the System… glitched, and a forced choice later finds him transformed into the Omnis Vorare, a creature driven by endless hunger.

  If he wants to grow stronger, faster, smarter — he has to consume. Monsters, magic, maybe even people. But when he’s reunited with familiar faces in monstrous forms, he’ll have to decide what’s left of his humanity — and how much he’s willing to eat to keep it.

  He’s not here to play by the rules.

  He’s here to eat them.

  I have to get this to 500 words so I suppose I'll give you a bit of the system shenanigans. Characters in this Post System realm can have a race, class, and profession. For every two levels they gain in class or profession, they gain one level in their race. They can pick new skills for each at the tenth levels, e g. 10, 20, 30, etc. At least for now. May change once the grades are introduced.

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  This is planned to be mulitple books, but I don't know how many just yet. We'll have to see how everything goes.

  Dan ends up as a creature who is literally non binary, but it doesn't really play any sort of role, I just don't care to deal with harem type stuff. So he won't.

  This is going to be a fun ride of Dan going around eating stuff and getting strong. It will not be overly descriptive in terms of the process of eating, as some may find it gross, and it's not super fun to write.

  I'll have early access to chapters on Patreon, as well as other lore drop stuff as I get it written up! Okay, almost there. I hope you all enjoy the book and I appreciate all if your support as we go through this crazy life together.

  May this be a light to you, in dark places, when all other lights go out.

  Copyright ? G.A. Rowe II, 2025

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  All characters and events in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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