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The Matter Destructor

Lucian Cross

Written by
Lucian Cross
Length
10 hrs
Rating
4.2 / 5
Listed
$21.55
Series
The Matter Destructor, Book 1
Publisher
Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Released
2026-03-04

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What it is

Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested.

Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him. While his coworkers falter, Hunter adapts with machine-like focus—snapping bones with his bare hands, tearing through beasts, and exploiting every inch of the System’s design.

Level by level, kill by kill, he grows sharper, faster, stronger—while quietly unraveling the secrets of his skills, past, and the unseen powers who watch from above. To his allies, he’s unsettling, even frightening. To his enemies, he’s death in motion.

But Hunter isn’t here to play hero. He isn’t here to inspire. He’s here for one thing only: to cut a path through the System’s chaos and to gain power—no matter how many monsters, rules, or overlords he has to break along the way.

About the series

The Matter Destructor in order →

The Matter Destructor — 4 books, 4 of them charting here

  1. 1 The Matter Destructor4.2
  2. 2 The Matter Destructor: Book II4.6
  3. 3 The Matter Destructor: Book III4.3
  4. 1-3 The Matter Destructor Omnibus, Books 1-34.4

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