The Aethelburg Anomaly

For Officer Kaelen Vance, the world was a predictable grind of bad coffee and worse criminals. But a routine welfare check on a remote farm shatters his reality. Instead of a missing person, he finds a blood-soaked nightmare and a creature of bone and shadow that shrugs off bullets. His first kill in this new world brings not relief, but a shimmering blue screen congratulating him. The System has arrived. Now, monsters crawl from tears in the sky, the city is a warzone, and Kael's only law is the level-up. He’s not a hero, just a cop with a new, impossible power, and his beat is the apocalypse.