Grix of Ashenmere

 Grix of Ashenmere

Ethan Cole's last wish, dying of cancer at thirty-one, was simple: to be wanted, just once, before the end.

He wakes up instead as a goblin — the weakest, most hated creature in a world that didn't exist yesterday. A voice in his head calmly informs him of two things: the two worlds have merged into one, and he is the reason why.

Hunted on sight by kingdoms, sects, and mage guilds alike, Ethan has nothing. No allies. No status. Not even a name. What he does have is a system no one else possesses, a talent for a cultivation path every human, elf, and dwarf in Ashenmere believes belongs to no one but goblins — and the terrifying ability to bind a chosen few of his own kind to him, body and power, even if they can never truly know him back.

To survive, he'll have to become something the world has never had to fear before: a goblin who thinks, who bonds, who builds — ruthless to anyone who threatens his people, and quietly starving for the one thing his power can never buy him.

He broke the world getting here.

Now he has to decide what to build from the ashes.