Kellan Rook survived the dungeon that should have killed him.
Now Veyrfall Academy has a new problem: the Rank Zero porter it dismissed is gaining skills no porter should have.
The review board wants him classified. Noble families want him restricted. Garrick Vale wants him exposed. And half the academy has already decided the same thing—that Kellan is not learning.
He is stealing.
But Kellan cannot choose what he gains. He cannot copy mastery. He cannot take anything from anyone. He only receives the smallest version of a skill when danger, proximity, and pressure force the System to notice him.
Allowed into classes only under supervision, thrown into ranked support trials, and watched by enemies who expect him to fail, Kellan must prove that borrowed skills can become earned strength.
Because the next rank is not given.
It is carried.
Borrowed Rank is Book 2 of The Last-Rank Porter, a weak-to-strong academy LitRPG progression fantasy with dungeon trials, System skills, noble rivals, ranked academy politics, and an underdog porter who survives by filling every role everyone else ignores.
Genre: Fantasy
Now Veyrfall Academy has a new problem: the Rank Zero porter it dismissed is gaining skills no porter should have.
The review board wants him classified. Noble families want him restricted. Garrick Vale wants him exposed. And half the academy has already decided the same thing—that Kellan is not learning.
He is stealing.
But Kellan cannot choose what he gains. He cannot copy mastery. He cannot take anything from anyone. He only receives the smallest version of a skill when danger, proximity, and pressure force the System to notice him.
Allowed into classes only under supervision, thrown into ranked support trials, and watched by enemies who expect him to fail, Kellan must prove that borrowed skills can become earned strength.
Because the next rank is not given.
It is carried.
Borrowed Rank is Book 2 of The Last-Rank Porter, a weak-to-strong academy LitRPG progression fantasy with dungeon trials, System skills, noble rivals, ranked academy politics, and an underdog porter who survives by filling every role everyone else ignores.
Genre: Fantasy
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