The haunting of Xene

Baek Nephrios is used to being nothing—a bottom-tier F-Rank in a world where the System dictates your worth. Bullied at school, ignored at home, his only escape is the online haven he shares with six other outcasts: fellow F-Ranks who laugh about their misery by joking they should start a cult.



It’s all fun and games… until their mock ritual in a cursed ruin breaks something.



The System glitches.



A corruption seeps in. An error that shouldn’t exist. It calls itself Xene, and it offers them power: strength to crush their tormentors, abilities that defy the System’s rigid rules. But Xene is hungry. The more they use its gifts, the more it rewrites them. Loyalty becomes obsession. Revenge turns to slaughter.

Nephrios wanted to change the world, to make the ones who wronged him suffer. But as Xene rises, so does a terrifying question: Is he still leading the cult… or has something far worse taken control?