She died on a Tuesday.
No prophecy. No glory. Just a girl with scratched headphones walking home from her corner store shift, earbuds blasting static-pop music she didn't even like.
Then reality tore.
A portal ripped open—slivered, glitching, and rotten-smelling, part alien, part corrupted anime nightmare. It slithered through, teeth jagged, claws dripping with molten black. It bit her chest. Her scream didn't finish.
The world didn't stop. Cars drove by. Streetlights flickered. Holographic ads buzzed, flickering with fractured colors. She collapsed, twitching, gone.
Death didn't claim her.
Her eyes snapped open.
Rose-metal plating shimmered over skin once soft and human, pink-copper gleam, veins pulsing like liquid fire underneath. Fingers plated, claws sharpened. Teeth jagged like chrome. Amber eyes glowed cold, unfeeling.
The girl was gone. A zombie bitch was born.
SYSTEM ONLINE
User: Reanimated Entity
Rank: Level 1
Status: Permanent Respawn Enabled
Abilities: Unlimited Stamina, Unlimited Magic Reserves, Unlimited Reflexes
Weapon Integration: Left Thigh – Auto-Machine Gun [Permanent]
Rules: Every Kill = +1 Level | Every Dungeon Clear = +1 Level | Every Mission Complete = +1 Level
Cap: None
She laughed—hollow, brittle, like steel grinding against glass.
"Level up for killing? Permanent? Limitless? Cute. So all I gotta do is kill my way up. Nice."
Her stomach didn't hunger for food—it throbbed for blood.
First Kill
A drunk staggered into the alley, bottle in hand, muttering curses. He froze at her glow, amber eyes unblinking.
"Yo—what the fu—"
The machine gun erupted from her thigh. Bullets tore through him, spraying black sludge and bone fragments.
[Kill Registered. Level +1]
She wiped residue from her claws. "Weak. Absolutely pathetic. Move along, loser."
First Dungeon: Slaughter Cellar
A portal split the alley. She stepped through.
The dungeon was a collapsed subway station, black sludge dripping from walls, broken skeletons fused with metal spikes, spiders with human faces crawling across ceilings.
She smiled.
Monsters charged. She teleported mid-air. Cannon-leg swept them into shredded meat. Obsidian blade flashed, cleaving claws, jaws, torsos. Acid dripped on her plating, healed instantly.
[Kill Registered. Level +3]
[Kill Registered. Level +5]
A giant, skeletal warlord, fused with jagged chrome armor, emerged. Wings torn, eyes molten red.
Amber eyes gleamed. "Finally… a challenge."
She launched. Blades, bullets, magic pulses reflected back like shattered mirrors. Every strike ended in limbs or heads flying, black sludge splattering everywhere.
[Boss Defeated. Level +15]
[Dungeon Cleared. Level +5]
Level 25. She licked gore off her knuckles. "Too easy."
First Crew Encounter
Outside, a supernatural crew waited:
Jhene, violet chains crackling.
Yugami, molten claws twitching.
Verma, cyber-marksman, eyes flickering with tech.
"You cleared the dungeon solo?" Jhene called.
She smirked. Cannon-leg flicked. Head exploded.
[Kill Registered. Level +1]
Yugami lunged. Spine torn out.
[Kill Registered. Level +1]
Verma vanished. Mist crushed. Blood inhaled.
[Kill Registered. Level +1]
Level 53.
"Anyone else wanna play?" She licked residue from her lips. "No? Thought so."
Epilogue of Chapter 1
[Infinite Progression Unlocked]
[The Multiverse is yours. Kill everything.]
She lit a cigarette, smoke curling with blood dripping from her chin.
"I'll burn galaxies if I feel like it. Offend me—die. Disrespect me—vanish. Simple rules."
For the first time since death, she felt alive.