25 years ago, six Antarctic scientists discovered a massive palace made of indestructible marble buried in the ice. That was humanity's first exposure to what they called magic. It was a miraculous discovery that sent the world reeling. The world's second exposure was closer to genocide.
The Gates, rifts between dimensions began to appear, spewing forth monsters that were invulnerable to humanity's armaments. Guns, missiles, and a few nukes later, even the weakest stood strong. It wasn't until the scientists returned from the arctic wasteland that humanity was able to push them back. Not because the scientists had an ingenious plan fueled by research of the palace, rather, the exposure to the palace had turned them into something new, something humanity had never seen before, Heroes.
The Awakened humans wasted no time putting their skills to use, destroying more and more Gates. But no matter how many they destroyed, more popped up, each waiting seven days before unleashing their contents unless a Hero went inside and destroyed the monsters, monsters that humanity came to call Villains. Fortunately, the Gates' magic seeped onto Earth in tidal waves, Awakening more and more to the cause of the Heroes. Not only that, but the lucky few developed special abilities, called Quirks.
10 years later, after many bloody and brutal battles, humanity reached a stalemate, finally managing to rebuild their destroyed cities and recover their population. With the Heroes tackling any Gate that popped up, the supernatural events became little more than a daily sight. There were disasters here and there sure, Jeju Island and Kamish being notable ones. But there was some semblance of peace again.
Another 15 years later, and the bloodiest war in the history of the universe would begin with an 18-year-old boy just trying to make some money for his ailing mother as a rookie Hero. He was the weakest, but somewhere, deep in the dark matter of the universe, there was a throne of shadows waiting for him to sit upon it. That boy was Izuku Midoriya, that boy was the Shadow Monarch.
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Thank you for reading, for those who don't know, this is a rewrite to my most popular fanfiction, Shadow Monarch Hero: Deku! There were some things I didn't like about the fic, some things I wanted to improve upon, and just in general I love this world and the story so I had to come back to it! This will be quite a bit different from what you remember, for starters, this will not follow most of the initial Solo Leveling plot points unlike the previous, correcting a major complaint that people had about it! I hope you enjoy and look forward to more!
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Shadow Monarch Hero: Viridian (SMH: Deku rewrite)
Fanfiction(A rewrite of my Shadow Monarch Hero: Deku fic) 25 years ago, rifts between dimensions, called Gates, began to appear, spewing forth monstrous beasts that only Awakened Humans, or Heroes could fight. But not all Heroes are born equal and Izuku Midor...
