He woke in chains with no memory, a murder conviction, and a thirty-year sentence he doesn’t remember earning.
Goren remembers nothing before the prison wagon.
Not the people he supposedly killed.
Not the scars covering his hands.
Not why his body knows how to fight.
His choices are simple: spend the next three decades dying slowly in the mines of Ashdeep—or accept the Hunter Hall’s Brand and earn his freedom one bounty at a time.
So Goren becomes a Penal Hunter.
His assignments are the jobs nobody important wants: hunt fugitives, capture killers, clear monsters, and survive long enough for the Merit to matter.
There’s just one problem.
Goren is not what his records say he should be.
He begins at Level 17 with eighty-five unspent Attribute Points, a body trained to its natural limits, a weapon his hands remember even when his mind doesn’t, and an Innate Trait with one simple description:
Defiance — You were never made to kneel.
And the closer Goren comes to death, the faster he seems to grow.
But power won’t answer the question that matters most:
Who was Goren before the chains?
Because the deeper he digs into his past, the Hunter Hall, and the people controlling his sentence, the more he realizes that some bounties were never meant to be solved—and some hunters were never meant to survive.
The Defiant Bounty Hunter: Road to S-Rank is a progression-heavy LitRPG adventure featuring tactical combat, bounty hunting, monster battles, Attribute growth, powerful Traits, mystery, corruption, and a protagonist who gets stronger every time the world fails to keep him down.
Genre: Fantasy
Goren remembers nothing before the prison wagon.
Not the people he supposedly killed.
Not the scars covering his hands.
Not why his body knows how to fight.
His choices are simple: spend the next three decades dying slowly in the mines of Ashdeep—or accept the Hunter Hall’s Brand and earn his freedom one bounty at a time.
So Goren becomes a Penal Hunter.
His assignments are the jobs nobody important wants: hunt fugitives, capture killers, clear monsters, and survive long enough for the Merit to matter.
There’s just one problem.
Goren is not what his records say he should be.
He begins at Level 17 with eighty-five unspent Attribute Points, a body trained to its natural limits, a weapon his hands remember even when his mind doesn’t, and an Innate Trait with one simple description:
Defiance — You were never made to kneel.
And the closer Goren comes to death, the faster he seems to grow.
But power won’t answer the question that matters most:
Who was Goren before the chains?
Because the deeper he digs into his past, the Hunter Hall, and the people controlling his sentence, the more he realizes that some bounties were never meant to be solved—and some hunters were never meant to survive.
The Defiant Bounty Hunter: Road to S-Rank is a progression-heavy LitRPG adventure featuring tactical combat, bounty hunting, monster battles, Attribute growth, powerful Traits, mystery, corruption, and a protagonist who gets stronger every time the world fails to keep him down.
Genre: Fantasy
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