Crimson Hydra

Pulled from the point of death and thrust into a horde-mode-style survival game, Benny White's odds aren't looking too great. An eldritch entity named 'Dave' has tasked him with destroying the very System that now controls his fate. Benny's experience as a lab tech grants him a rare Splicer Class that lets him repurpose the genetic material of slain enemies into augments for himself — bone claws, blood-bullet turrets, and skeletal hydra heads. There's also his Flesh Golem summon called Meat, a lumbering monstrosity that keeps walking into trees. Welcome to the Game of Souls, where the only prize is to survive.

Against all odds, former geneticist Benny White has survived the first Wave of the Game of Souls — but the rewards have come at a cost, and the games are far from over. New enemies have arrived with eyes set on those calling the Blackstone Keep home, including intergalactic vampiric pirates and private outworlder factions with unclear motivations. With the board stacked against him and a target on his back, will Benny have the strength to pay the price of survival and become a bulwark for his people — or will the cost prove too high, leaving him nothing but a rampaging monster, devoid of humanity?