The Matter Destructor

Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested.

Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him. While his coworkers falter, Hunter adapts with machine-like focus—snapping bones with his bare hands, tearing through beasts, and exploiting every inch of the System’s design.

Level by level, kill by kill, he grows sharper, faster, stronger—while quietly unraveling the secrets of his skills, past, and the unseen powers who watch from above. To his allies, he’s unsettling, even frightening. To his enemies, he’s death in motion.

But Hunter isn’t here to play hero. He isn’t here to inspire. He’s here for one thing only: to cut a path through the System’s chaos and to gain power—no matter how many monsters, rules, or overlords he has to break along the way.

©2025 Lucian Cross (P)2026 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Cliffhanger much???

With an ending like that, I really hope the next book comes out soon… a lot of potential with this one.