Unbound Ascension – Coreless

What is better: to enter the multiverse gifted with power, or to begin weak and claw your way to strength through blood, will, and relentless effort?

When Earth is integrated into the Multiverse, humanity gains stats, skills, and magic—but only a select few are granted System Cores, becoming Core-bearers with a clear path to power.

Cade Whitehollow, a burned-out, indebted postdoc who has just been fired, is not one of them. Even so, he refuses to let this second life collapse into the same dead end as the first.

With no Core, no Class, and no head start, Cade is thrown into a lethal Tutorial designed for Core-bearers.

While they level, cast spells, and surge ahead, Cade has to survive the long, brutal grind of becoming eligible to forge a Core of his own.

Monsters evolve. Humans turn on each other. And buried somewhere in the chaos of the Tutorial is an ancient path to power—one even the System cannot control.

This work is only posted on Royal Road and Patreon. If you are viewing it anywhere else, it has been stolen and is an illegal and unauthorized copy.

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July release schedule is one chapter every Monday-Wednesday-Friday (3 days a week) at 08:03 AM EDT.

What to expect:

-Weak to strong to OP male MC

-Slow burn as the MC figures his way through the System

-2000-3000 word chapters (sometimes a little more)

-Fantasy setting with magic and a System

-Eastern cultivation elements meets Western LitRPG/System Apocalypse

-No Harem

Verification note: I, Carcian, confirm the copyright complaint submitted to Google LLC on July 11, 2026 regarding an unauthorized edition of Unbound Ascension – Coreless.