Godclads
OstensibleMammal
In the corpse-city of New Vultun, humanity slaughtered the gods and built a civilization from their remains — Frame, Heavens, and Souls power chrome, fire, and reality-bending miracles. Avo was created as a mindless dog-warrior for a doomed war, too weak to survive in a world of enforcers, chromers and golems. Taken in by his adoptive father, he defies his violent nature and masters Necrojacking — hacking minds and ghosts. When he awakens in the gutters with an immortal Soul burned into his being, he must graft greater gods to his Frame to survive, hunted by the Syndicate and the half-strands of dead divinity. Cyberpunk, eldritch and brutally physical, Godclads follows Avo's apotheosis from prey to predator as he claims the mantle of divinity and asks what kind of god he will become. A best-rated Royal Road serial with millions of views, now professionally edited for Kindle.
Progression: Explicit, central graft-progression: power is quantified and tiered via Soul/Heaven/Frame grafting. Characters implant Frames (bio-chrome rigs) and graft Heavens — ontological engines stolen from dead gods — and Souls that grant distinct axioms (e.g., Necrojack mind-hacking, Woundshaping, time/space rends, ghost intrusion). Advancement is vertical: survive by grafting stronger gods, integrating their Heavens, expanding Soul capacity, and mastering ontological pressure and pattern healing. System-like metrics include Heaven tier, Rank, physiology thresholds, and Necrojack depth; reviews and Goodreads confirm 'grind of power-ups, god-derived implants' and 'fire of godhood lit within him.' Progression is the engine: each arc forces Avo to overcome the Crucible, evade golems, infiltrate the Nether, and ascend from instrument to autonomous godhood, with clear before/after power states and divine taxonomy central to plot.
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