No one saw the end coming.
No meteors. No virus. No gods descending from the sky.
Just... silence. Then the clocks appeared - embedded in every human's chest, glowing faintly beneath skin and bone. Tick. Tick. Tick.
Ezra Cain had 43 minutes left to live.
[SYSTEM ONLINE]
ChronoCore Activated.
LIFE REMAINING: 43 minutes
RULES INITIATED: Kill to gain. Be killed to lose. Life is your only currency. Survive.
No explanations. No escape. Only the screams of people realizing their countdowns were real - and ticking fast.
Then came the first murders. Quiet ones, at first. Then chaos. Friends turning on each other. Families torn apart. Cities went dark overnight, governments collapsed in days.
Ezra wasn't a soldier. He wasn't special. Just a quiet, clever teen with anxiety and an eye for patterns.
But he noticed something no one else did - the way time moved around people, how their clocks shifted in danger. He felt death before it arrived. He sensed it.
And when a man tried to kill him for time...
He killed back.
+52 Years Absorbed. Life Bank: 52 years and 39 minutes
Something in Ezra awoke. A power buried deep.
The world had ended. But his story had just begun.
Now, he walks the ruins with a rusted pipe, a growing kill count, and a timer that won't stop ticking.
Because in this world?
🩸 Every kill buys you time. Every choice costs your soul.