Pilgrim of the Gilded Rot

Born with a curse in a dying cosmos, an outcast is enslaved by a tyrannical celestial empire. In this world, power isn't earned—it’s paid for with flesh and sanity. Survival means mastering forbidden rituals and performing gruesome self-surgery, grafting monstrous parts onto his own body. Every new ability is a step further from his humanity. Psychically chained to a perfect, cold-blooded enforcer—a guardian who is both his tormentor and his only anchor against madness—he is forced to hunt horrors leaking from reality’s wounds. But as he unravels a universe-shattering conspiracy, he discovers the greatest evil isn’t the chaos from the abyss, but the unyielding terror of absolute order. To save a world that despises him, he must become its greatest fear.