Hypothetical Sovereign
Boone Allard is the weakest kind of Delver — an E-rank porter who survives on the jobs stronger people won't take, all to pay for a mother the doctors can't....
Boone Allard is the weakest kind of Delver — an E-rank porter who survives on the jobs stronger people won't take, all to pay for a mother the doctors can't save. Then an ordinary Rift becomes a Double Rift, sealed, no exit, one rule. Last one alive walks out. He's the first to be stabbed and left for dead. He's the only one who wakes up. Something older than the System offers him a Pact, a choice no other Delver was given, and Boone comes back changed... the hidden Sovereign of Ash, a man who binds the conscious shadow. But power grown in the dark draws things in the dark, and a class that commands great power is something the great guilds will fight to own, to cage, or to bury. So he climbs. Floor by floor, kill by kill, building an army out of everything that tries to end him... hunted by the people who made him, hiding what he is, spending everything he becomes for the one ordinary life he's trying to keep alive. He was never chosen. He wasn't blessed, or destined, or special. He just refused to die. And then he refused to follow the rules. Or so he though...