World Rank: The Last Sovereign

Every 365 days, the bottom 30% of humanity gets erased. The System is keeping score. Everyone can see the numbers. Kael Dren's number is terrible. His class is rated near-useless, his combat projection is eleven percent, and every high-ranked killer on the global board would dismiss him on sight. They would be wrong. While the world optimizes for kills, Kael optimizes for contracts. Every person he binds to his network multiplies his strength.