Apocalypse Leech- The Eros Parasite

After the Collapse, Earth is devoured by The Hunger. A cosmic parasite that infects the human soul. Survivors awaken to the Eros System, their bodies reclassified by Tiers based on one thing: how much desire they can provoke or generate. The system didn’t choose randomly. Each person’s Desire Core: their power source, was forged from the strongest emotion they felt at the moment the Collapse began. Lust. Grief. Greed. Rage. The act you were doing. The feeling you clung to. That became your curse… or your weapon. Those who burned with ambition shot up the ranks. Those who felt empathy? Often stagnated. And some? Never had a chance. Zeon Dusk, a shut-in virgin programmer with a dead-end job and zero social skills, had one of the weakest cores ever recorded. He was watching anime reruns alone in his basement when the world ended. His root desire? Escape. Tier 0. A walking punchline. The kind of guy who dies in the first chapter. Until he kissed a dying Tier 5 Anchor by accident, and the system glitched. [System Awakening: Eros Parasite Detected] [Power Source: Desire. Attention. Intimacy.] [Skill Unlocked: Tier Leech – Hijack powers through emotional resonance] Now, every craving that locks onto him: want, lust, jealousy, even hate...feeds him. He doesn’t need to fight. He just needs to matter. To make them feel. But surviving isn't enough anymore. Because Zeon's not just a parasite, he's evolving. And the deeper he taps into the hunger of others, the more his own begins to stir. His root desire, once a joke, is becoming something else. Something dangerous. The monsters hunt. The elites dominate. But Zeon will climb, seduce, and corrupt his way to the top… One stolen desire at a time.