Solo Leveling: Arcane Monarch

Xavier Valentine builds walls for a living. Good, solid walls that keep things where they belong - in or out. It's honest work, far from the world of gates, monsters, and the celebrity hunters who fight them. Far from the legacy his A-rank parents left behind when they died.



But walls have a way of cracking.



When S-rank hunter Kafka - the infamous Spider of the Scavenger Guild - singles him out during a routine gate clearing, Xavier's carefully constructed normalcy begins to crumble.



He wants nothing to do with it. He has a sister to put through college, bills to pay, and enough ghosts haunting him without adding hunter politics to the mix. But in a world where reality tears open on luxury shopping streets and monsters spill into coffee shops, staying invisible isn't as simple as keeping your head down.



Especially when you've spent years deliberately suppressing what you could become.



Now Xavier finds himself caught between two impossibilities: embracing the power he's always suppressed, or watching his ordinary life dissolve around him. As gates increase in frequency and danger, as ancient powers stir beneath modern cities, he'll have to decide which walls are worth keeping.



And which need to come down.