Elias wakes as a Hollow—rejected by the Codex, stripped of power, marked as worthless. Trapped in the Maw's slums with nothing to lose, he discovers a forbidden technique: absorbing the souls of the dead to gain strength. Each integration grants power but demands a price—fragmented memories, alien voices, personality erosion, sanity loss. As ambition drives him deeper into the hunt, Elias transforms from desperate survivor into something inhuman. Every gain is a loss. Every victory fractures him further. The question isn't whether he'll become powerful enough to escape his fate—it's whether anything recognizably *him* will survive the ascension. A dark LitRPG about the cost of ambition and what happens when you're willing to sacrifice everything to stop being nobody.