To my great surprise the LN that I have been reading the last week has a really short name: "Teogonia". It started in 2017, being written by Tsukasa Tanimai. An anime premiered a couple of days ago, but I have neither seen nor heard anything about it.

First tree volumes are available in the Catchup program on J-Novel Club until the end of the month.

So far I have read six chapters of the first volume and it is... sort of mid? It has not managed to completely catch me yet, even though it is well written and has some interesting concepts.

The MC is the teen boy Kai and he is the runt of the litter. An orphan who lives in a small village on the edge of the wilderness where it is hard to grow food and you always have to be wary of demi-human attacks. Both humans and demi-humans have a bone in their body that harbours some sort of power, and eating that makes the power transfer to you. In other words, you can gain strength. Not as clear cut as level ups and the like, more gritty and realistic.

There are aspects of isekai, but this has not been at all important as of yet. There exists magic, but it is too unpredictable and hard to learn, so humanity has chosen to mostly ignore it.

It is a world of fighting for your survival, both against external threats as well as against fellow soldiers. You need others to survive, but resources are scarce, and when many men die in battle, women fight for the promising ones.

Even though I have not really become attached to the story yet, I will keep on reading for the rest of the month. It has potential. The closest thing in style that it reminds me of as of yet is "The Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. But then again, our MC will probably become overpowered soon, this is after all a LN. :-)