SSS-Rank Geniuses Fear Me

For thousands of years, the world has believed in a simple truth:

Talent is everything.

From the moment of awakening, every person's future is determined by their Talent Rank. The gifted become heroes, rulers, and legends. The untalented are forgotten.

At the top of this hierarchy stand the SSS-Rank Geniuses, individuals so rare that entire nations fight to recruit them.

Ronan Vale was never meant to stand among them.

Born a commoner in a remote mining village, he enters the Awakening Ceremony expecting an ordinary future. Instead, the Talent Monolith displays something that has never appeared before.

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The ceremony is immediately shut down. Ancient records are sealed. Powerful figures begin moving in the shadows.

Because Ronan's talent is not a failure.

It is something the world tried to erase.

A rank that exists beyond SSS.

A rank known only in forbidden legends as Monster Rank.

Accepted into the Imperial Academy, Ronan finds himself surrounded by the greatest geniuses of his generation. Noble heirs, legendary prodigies, and future rulers all look down on the commoner who shouldn't even be standing beside them.

But while geniuses follow the rules of the world, monsters were never meant to.

As forgotten secrets rise from the depths of history and ancient powers awaken across the continent, Ronan discovers a terrifying truth:

The strongest beings in history were never the geniuses praised by the world.

They were the monsters hidden from it.

And soon, the entire world will learn why even SSS-Rank Geniuses fear him.