The Monster King's Legacy - Chapter 1: The End and A New Beginning

... at the sterile white ceiling of his hospital room, the beeping monitors punctuating the silence, a sound he was all too familiar with, something he was unsure was keeping him from insanity or driving him to it. Lance was only twenty-three, yet his body felt like it belonged to a man five times his age.

He used to be quite a healthy youth carrying on with life just like every normal boy his age would. All that changed after he finished university and went home to visit his parents' tombs ...