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Exploit Hunter

(2025)
(The fifth book in the Level Zero Knockout series)
A novel by

 
 
Juno Hale is still Level 0.
Still a glitch.
Still the System’s favourite punchline in chainmail.


After the whole ‘angel made of rollback code’ incident, her shard’s wipe clock is paused… but only locally. Up in Patchspace, the dev-gods are still hovering a finger over the DELETE WORLD button and arguing about graphs.

Their new plan?

Don’t send another Seraph.
Send a
Champion of Balance.

The Exploit Hunter arrives like a walking patch note in silver armour—part lifeguard, part tax collector. He steals last hits, ‘corrects unsafe encounters,’ and quietly pushes Juno’s shard toward a clean, data-driven rollback. Every time he intervenes, someone’s loot, build, or weekend disappears in a puff of ‘working as intended.’

Juno’s had enough.

If the Council can study her tapes, she can study theirs.
If they can weaponise her glitch, she can weaponise their ‘features.’


With new tricks like Counter Pattern and Armour Riposte, Juno turns humiliation into a toolbox and starts hunting the Hunter—only to discover he might be the last human shield between her world and something worse: PATCHSTORM, a live update that rewrites reality while everyone’s still standing in it.

To save her shard, Juno has to beat the champion, break the script, and follow his leash all the way up to the storm brewing over Server Spire.

If the next patch is going to land on her head, she plans to meet it with both fists up.

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Genre: Science Fiction

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