Unbound Ascension – Coreless
D29/100Web serial by Carcian
Ongoing257,421 words · 97 chapters · 2026
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. Thrown into a lethal Tutorial designed for Core-bearers, Cade must survive the brutal grind of becoming eligible to forge a Core of his own while others level, cast spells, and surge ahead. 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.
Male lead
Power system
Protagonist