The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse

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"Eat the bug first. Then we'll talk."

Everyone is deathly afraid of insects. When giant insects known as the Swarm fell from the stars to invade the world, they brought with them untold carnage and disaster, terraforming the world to suit their adaptations. A hundred years later, the surface world is nigh-inhospitable to humans. The Swarm rules, and anyone who tries to defy them ends up crushed underfoot.

Fourteen-year-old Dahlia has never seen the sun. She lives in an underground town far from giant insects, and she wants nothing to do with them. She fears them more than anything else and has no interest in them being alive. If she could just spend every day coasting through her fighting classes and grow up to be the best insect gear maker in town, she would be more than happy enough… that is, until one night a cocoon falls through the ceiling and an army of giant insects flood into the town.

Afraid or not, weak or strong, this is kill or be killed. Eat or be eaten. To survive the Swarm, she must make do with what she has—and unmake everything standing in her way.

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- A system apocalypse where power comes from consuming insects and wearing their skin as magical equipment. The main character only chooses the latter for special reasons.

- A wide array of strange insect mutations and abilities all based on real life insects. Come for the fights, stay for the insect trivia.

- A slow progression fantasy where growth is physically and mentally painful, but consistent and rewarding. Over the Volumes, Dahlia will become very, very powerful.

Warning: contains gore, trauma, corpse-crafting, physical deformation, and lots of creepy crawlies. Dahlia gets the system very early on in chapter one, but the story is more character centric and LitRPG-lite in Volume One, so less numbers, more mystery. The full system and the wider world will play a bigger role in Volume Two.

(Currently hosting Tier 3 Patron giveaway game for whoever answers my question in chapter nine! The game ends after Volume One/chapter thirty)

Daily uploads during Rising Stars (W/F after Volume One)!

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The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 15 Chapter 15 - The Landing RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 14 Chapter 14 - Glider RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 13 Chapter 13 - The Liar RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 12 Chapter 12 - The Strongest Student RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 11 Chapter 11 - Hornet Hunter RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 10 Chapter 10 - The Bug-Hunting School RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 9 Chapter 9 - Rejection RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 8 Chapter 8 - The Steel Path RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 7 Chapter 7 - The Southwestern Textile Street RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 6 Chapter 6 - The Swarm Shelter RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 5 Chapter 5 - The Ascent RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 4 Chapter 4 - Flesh Reallocation RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 4 Interlude 4 - The Sina Promise RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 3 Chapter 3 - Systematic Dismantling RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 3 Interlude 3 - The Sina Child RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 2 Chapter 2 - Altered Swarmsteel System RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse 1 Chapter 1 - The Swarm Descends RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse Chapter 0 - The Make-Whatever RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse Interlude One - The Sina Boy RoyalRoadL
The Unmaker - A Corpse-Crafting System Apocalypse Interlude Two - The Sina Household RoyalRoadL