Reservoir
by Grey Smurffin
LitRPGFantasyGameLit
Felix has spent his life taking things that don't belong to him. The System gave him a class that does exactly the same thing.
[RESERVOIR — OVERFLOW ALLOCATION NODE]
No kills required. No grinding. Just proximity — and the patience to let other people do the dying.
While every other adventurer earns XP the honest way, Felix absorbs the overflow. The excess experience that spills off every kill, every level-up, every hard-won fight his party walks away from. Wasted, normally. His, now.
It sounds like cheating. It mostly is.
But the System doesn't hand out easy roads without fine print, and Felix is starting to suspect his class is less of a gift and more of a pressure valve — one that's building toward something the notifications aren't mentioning.
He's a con man. He knows a long game when he sees one.
He's just not sure yet who's running it.