The Unwanted Undead Adventurer

For ten years, Rentt Faina has worked as a monster hunter, yet his career remains remarkably unimpressive. Despite his long tenure in the profession, he finds himself trapped at the bottom of the adventurer hierarchy, scraping together a meager living by hunting low-level slimes and goblins for a handful of coins each day. His fortunes appear to shift when he stumbles upon an undiscovered path, offering the tantalizing promise of greater rewards and a chance to finally advance beyond his stagnant existence. However, this unexpected discovery leads directly to his doom. At the end of the hidden route, Rentt encounters a legendary dragon and is swiftly devoured, meeting a brutal end to his decade-long career. Yet death does not bring him peace. Instead, Rentt awakens to find that he has been transformed into an undead skeleton, stripped of his humanity and reduced to nothing more than a bag of bones. Faced with this harrowing new reality, Rentt refuses to remain trapped in his monstrous form. He embarks on a desperate quest to achieve Existential Evolution, a mysterious process he hopes will allow him to transcend his undead state. Driven by the singular goal of reclaiming his lost humanity, he sets out to rejoin the land of the living.