ABYSS CONTRACT My First Spirit Was A Demon

In modern-day Blackridge City, power isn’t given—it’s contracted. At Blackridge Spirit Academy, students form lifelong bonds with spirits through Aether Gauntlets, gaining the ability to fight the monsters that lurk beyond the surface of reality. For Ethan Cole, this was supposed to be his one chance. A way out of poverty. A way to protect his family. A way to matter. But during his evaluation, everything goes wrong. Instead of forming a contract with a spirit— he awakens something forbidden. An unregistered, abyssal entity. A demon. Now bound to a living gauntlet that defies all known systems, Ethan gains power unlike anything the academy has ever seen… at a cost he doesn’t yet understand. His weapon devours. His power corrupts. And the entity inside him—Veyrath—is watching. As the Veil Authority closes in and the academy begins to question whether he should exist at all, Ethan is thrown into a world of hidden wars, ranking battles, and deadly contracts where one mistake means losing everything. Because in this world: You only get one beast. One gauntlet. One chance. And if you lose it— you lose everything.