The Neo Egoist

this is originally on ao3 and is getting cross-posted
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Isagi Yoichi was born useless.

His rune held no skills and his pathway made it obvious his standing

𝘜𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 was his pathway. Not exactly the best sounding but Yoichi had already resigned to his fate of being worthless trash.

The pathways are the concepts people gain once they obtain a rune and can see their statistics. Any normal person would start off with the 5 paths if their stats get high enough, them being Destruction, Erudition, Abundance, Harmony and Preservation. Unfortunately for about 89% of the population, having stats above 50 to even obtain a pathway was virtually impossible.

The statistics relied on 3 main attributes. 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 and 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.

Just how exactly would Isagi Yoichi escape death from the Shadows that lurked in every corner of the world except certain fortresses survive when he could easily be fed off?

𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘵. He dies. Probably