He spent ninety days becoming worse at his job so he could keep doing it.
Ray Deacon killed the best hunter the Salvage Houses ever sent for him. His reward: the price on his head more than doubled, and the only number that ever helped him, his Standing, now sits eight points from the line where the terminal in his own hand is legally required to report his position to the House that wants it back.
So Ray does the one thing no one in the trade has ever done on purpose. He stops earning.
He takes the kills that pay nothing. He walks away from purses he bled for. And he discovers the coldest weapon on the board: the enemy's own compliance office, which will gut a rival House for free if somebody quietly hands it the paperwork.
But the House he robbed of a terminal has a colder trick. Every time their courier fails to serve him, his number ticks up one point. They cannot shoot him. They can raise him toward the line, one refusal at a time.
And underneath it all, a date nobody can move. On Day 180 the Contest expires, and the sixty surviving champions lose everything they were ever given, on the same morning, with no warning and no ceremony. Ray cannot save them. He can teach them what it costs to live the way he already does.
Book 2 of Kill Rate. No class. No levels. No destiny. A man holding a number still, while the whole world counts down.
A LitRPG apocalypse for fans of dark progression fantasy: the last lawful day on a purchased planet, an anti hero racing a sealed record, and a ceiling that never grows back.
Genre: GameLit
Ray Deacon killed the best hunter the Salvage Houses ever sent for him. His reward: the price on his head more than doubled, and the only number that ever helped him, his Standing, now sits eight points from the line where the terminal in his own hand is legally required to report his position to the House that wants it back.
So Ray does the one thing no one in the trade has ever done on purpose. He stops earning.
He takes the kills that pay nothing. He walks away from purses he bled for. And he discovers the coldest weapon on the board: the enemy's own compliance office, which will gut a rival House for free if somebody quietly hands it the paperwork.
But the House he robbed of a terminal has a colder trick. Every time their courier fails to serve him, his number ticks up one point. They cannot shoot him. They can raise him toward the line, one refusal at a time.
And underneath it all, a date nobody can move. On Day 180 the Contest expires, and the sixty surviving champions lose everything they were ever given, on the same morning, with no warning and no ceremony. Ray cannot save them. He can teach them what it costs to live the way he already does.
Book 2 of Kill Rate. No class. No levels. No destiny. A man holding a number still, while the whole world counts down.
A LitRPG apocalypse for fans of dark progression fantasy: the last lawful day on a purchased planet, an anti hero racing a sealed record, and a ceiling that never grows back.
Genre: GameLit
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