Unbound Ascension – Coreless [System Apocalypse - LitRPG - Weak to Strong]

When Earth is forcibly integrated into the Multiverse, humanity gains access to stats, skills, and magic—but only the chosen receive System Cores, granting them an instant advantage. Cade Whitehollow, a broke and disillusioned academic, isn’t one of them. Coreless and classless, he’s hurled into a deadly Tutorial designed for those already blessed by the System. While Core-bearers level with ease, Cade must scrape survival from the margins, fighting through monsters and betrayal just to earn the right to forge his own Core. But the Tutorial hides secrets—an ancient power outside the System’s control, a path no one else dares to take. In a world where strength is bought with blood, Cade must carve his own way or die forgotten.