Debt-Bound Beast Tamer

Crunch’s teeth snap through bone armor—and the entire underground arena goes silent. Lin Xu has one night to win the next fight, or the debt collectors will take the mutant pup he fought to keep alive. The cracked egg was worthless, and Crunch was supposed to die within three days. Using forbidden biology from the world before the collapse, Lin turns the dying runt into a pit fighter and claws his way from scrap-town brawls toward the Champion’s Belt. But nomad tamer Vira warns him to stop climbing—and every belt he wins bears a code identical to the sample number from the laboratory explosion that killed him. Will Lin claim the final belt and enter the city, or save Crunch from the same experiment that may have already taken his life once?