Kellan Rook survived Rank Zero.
He survived borrowed power, dungeon betrayal, noble suspicion, and the academy’s attempt to decide whether a porter could ever become something more.
Now Veyrfall Academy has given his gift a name.
The Leech Rule.
Fifteen corridors are restricted. Exposure is limited. Every noble family, instructor, and administrator who fears what Kellan can become has found a cleaner way to cage him: not with chains, but with procedure.
But Kellan has spent his life carrying what others ignored. He knows back routes. He knows broken systems. He knows the quiet labor beneath every noble victory.
And when the academy tries to cut him off from power, he begins learning from the one source they forgot to restrict.
, he begins learning from the one source theyThe people at the bottom.
Porters. Cooks. stable hands. wounded students. forgotten records. old debts. small skills. ordinary work.
The Leech Rule was meant to prove Kellan Rook steals from the strong.
Instead, it may prove the entire academy has been standing on the strength of the overlooked all along.
The Leech Rule is Book 3 of The Last-Rank Porter, a progression fantasy / LitRPG academy series about random skill growth, dungeon survival, noble politics, and an underdog porter who turns every ‘useless’ skill into a reason to keep moving.
Genre: Fantasy
He survived borrowed power, dungeon betrayal, noble suspicion, and the academy’s attempt to decide whether a porter could ever become something more.
Now Veyrfall Academy has given his gift a name.
The Leech Rule.
Fifteen corridors are restricted. Exposure is limited. Every noble family, instructor, and administrator who fears what Kellan can become has found a cleaner way to cage him: not with chains, but with procedure.
But Kellan has spent his life carrying what others ignored. He knows back routes. He knows broken systems. He knows the quiet labor beneath every noble victory.
And when the academy tries to cut him off from power, he begins learning from the one source they forgot to restrict.
, he begins learning from the one source theyThe people at the bottom.
Porters. Cooks. stable hands. wounded students. forgotten records. old debts. small skills. ordinary work.
The Leech Rule was meant to prove Kellan Rook steals from the strong.
Instead, it may prove the entire academy has been standing on the strength of the overlooked all along.
The Leech Rule is Book 3 of The Last-Rank Porter, a progression fantasy / LitRPG academy series about random skill growth, dungeon survival, noble politics, and an underdog porter who turns every ‘useless’ skill into a reason to keep moving.
Genre: Fantasy
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