The Wild Card Chronicles: The Null Deck by Junia Bram (.ePUB)
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The Null Deck by Junia Bram (The Wild Card Chronicles: 1)
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Overview: In a world where magic is currency, the most dangerous weapon is the boy who has none.
Step into the suffocating smog of Oakhaven, a parasitic city where your worth is measured by the mana in your veins. Feel the gnawing hunger and absolute desperation of a street rat pushed to the brink, forced into the toxic and unforgiving Wilds just to pay his rent. This isn’t a glorious tale of a chosen hero draped in gold. It’s a gritty, breathless fight for survival alongside a fiercely protective, sentient slime who is as lethal as she is innocent. Together, they will bleed, evolve, and forge a bond that defies the very laws of magic.
Rian Thorne is a “Dud”—a magicless scavenger scraping by in the lightless Gutters, completely invisible to the powerful Guilds that rule from above. But when a ruthless rent hike forces him to take a suicide contract in the toxic Sludge-Fens, Rian stumbles upon a Pre-Collapse artifact that shouldn’t exist. The Null Deck. It doesn’t just grant him power; it fuses to his bones, draining his very life force to sustain the creature trapped inside—a highly unstable slime variant who needs him to survive just as much as he now needs her.
Hunted by a relentless Syndicate enforcer and a cold-blooded scientist who will dissect them both to uncover the Deck’s secrets, Rian must master a terrifying new reality. Without a drop of his own mana, he has to kill to feed the Gauntlet, harvesting the essence of the Wilds’ deadliest predators to fuel his companion’s rapid, violent evolution.
But the Wilds are merciless, and every victory demands a heavier toll. As the Syndicate’s net tightens and his companion begins to destabilize, Rian is pushed into a corner where simple scavenging is no longer enough. He’ll have to make an irreversible bargain, sacrificing pieces of his own humanity and future to become something the world hasn’t seen in decades. A true threat.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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