The Slaughter System

Amid the ruins of a vast city, many living beings struggled to survive.

It was clear that this world had once been technologically advanced and highly civilized. Many people had lived here, building prosperous cities and enjoying happy lives, much like Arthur had in his previous life.

But then the world underwent a sudden change. An unknown disaster struck the entire city, destroying it outright. Vast stretches of buildings were abandoned and reduced to ruins.

The city had long since lost its former prosperity. The crowds and clamor of the past were gone, yet traces of life still remained.

In Arthur's eyes, some people were still surviving here. They were hiding in the corners of the ruined city, struggling to stay alive and living day after day in a pitiful fight for survival.

Demonic Beasts infected by the aura of chaos wandered into the ruins from time to time, looking for trouble. Some people were discovered by them and hunted down; every so often, several people would be dragged away.

The people around them had long since grown used to it and no longer found it surprising.

In a world steadily heading toward destruction, no one knew what the future held. Someone who had been alive and well just yesterday, smiling as they greeted you, might become a cold corpse the very next day. The Demonic Beasts would even drag away the remains and devour them in droves.

At this rate, perhaps in a few hundred or a thousand years, the world would vanish completely. Every normal living being would be devoured, leaving only Demonic Beasts to multiply and drag the whole world into an abyss.

Arthur walked quietly through the area, observing his surroundings.

In Arthur's eyes, the living conditions here were utterly miserable.

Though this world had once