Shadow Sovereign's

Ordinary college student Leo Calder dies on a rainy night, murdered for a phone he didn’t even own. Instead of the afterlife, he wakes up inside the “Cradle of Nightmares”—an endless, ever-shifting multiverse of dream and terror ruled by seven Forgotten Gods. To return to his world (or to any world), he must survive the Trials of the Dream Realm and the Nightmare Realm, climbing an impossible ladder of divine power called the Sovereign Steps.The only thing he is given is a broken, mocking System that calls itself [The Shadow That Swallows Names]. It offers one thing, and one thing only:[Aspect: Nameless King] You have no name. You have no past. Everything you kill becomes a shadow that obeys you. Everything that knows your true name can command you.Thus begins Leo’s rise from the weakest “Flawed Soul” in history to the being feared across all realms as the Shadow Sovereign—the one who sits on a throne made of the nightmares he devoured.But power always has a price. Every shadow he claims eats a piece of his humanity. Every Trial forces him to choose between becoming a monster… or letting the monsters win.And somewhere in the endless dark, a silver-eyed girl with a voice like breaking glass keeps saving him—again and again—only to vanish before he can ask her name.She calls herself “a dream you haven’t woken up from yet.” He’s starting to believe her.