Juno Hale is still Level 0.
The System still thinks that’s a bug.
After speed-running the ‘safe’ starter dungeons with her bare hands, Juno marches into Tier Two—where the trees are taller, the wolves hit harder, and the devs are waiting. Their answer to a permanently Level 0 pugilist who keeps breaking their damage curves?
Patch Boss: Slaughtercat.
It’s fast. It’s lethal. It’s a chainsaw-clawed murder-kitty coded from the ground up to counter ‘high STR, low level profiles’ like Juno. Normal parties get deleted in seconds. Tanks are turned into patch notes. Every wipe log ends the same way: ANOMALY NOT PRESENT. CLEANUP COMPLETE.
Except this time the anomaly shows up. With Heavy Hands, glitch-buffed stats, and a Cinematic Wardrobe Malfunction trait that hates sensible armour, Juno has to:
The System still thinks that’s a bug.
After speed-running the ‘safe’ starter dungeons with her bare hands, Juno marches into Tier Two—where the trees are taller, the wolves hit harder, and the devs are waiting. Their answer to a permanently Level 0 pugilist who keeps breaking their damage curves?
Patch Boss: Slaughtercat.
It’s fast. It’s lethal. It’s a chainsaw-clawed murder-kitty coded from the ground up to counter ‘high STR, low level profiles’ like Juno. Normal parties get deleted in seconds. Tanks are turned into patch notes. Every wipe log ends the same way: ANOMALY NOT PRESENT. CLEANUP COMPLETE.
Except this time the anomaly shows up. With Heavy Hands, glitch-buffed stats, and a Cinematic Wardrobe Malfunction trait that hates sensible armour, Juno has to:
- Survive a roaming boss that ignores dungeon walls and eats scripted encounters for snacks
Turn knockback resistance and Normalise debuffs into ammo instead of nerfs
Learn new impact-based skills in the middle of a chase scene across collapsing battlements
Punch a bespoke dev experiment so hard it drops a PUGILIST CORE fragment—and the truth about what she really is
The Patch Council wanted to ‘normalise’ the live exploit in their forest shard.
What they got was a woman who treats their balance passes as a training montage.
If you like foul-mouthed LitRPG heroines, dev-chat snark, stupidly fun boss fights and chainmail bikini ‘armour’ that never survives the set piece, click Buy Now and let Slaughtercat find out what happens when the patch notes hit back.
Genre: Science Fiction
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