by Rico Liemanto
Every impossible bounty has a method. Lucien Vale intends to find it. Lucien Vale has spent his career making impossible things look easy. He is a traveling stage magician, a licensed bounty hunter, and a professional liar with a reliable revolver, an aging starship, and Quinn Rook—the Assistant who makes sure everything still works after the applause stops. Until now, none of Lucien's magic has been real. Then a live performance becomes a real bounty operation, and the System offers him an extraordinarily rare Class: [Magician] It doesn't make him stronger. It doesn't make him faster. It certainly doesn't make him bulletproof. Instead, it turns the principles Lucien has practiced all his life—attention, deception, preparation, substitution, expectation—into something supernatural. For the first time, contracts he once considered professionally unreasonable begin to look possible. And there is one collection of contracts every bounty hunter knows. The Unclaimed Ten. Ten legendary warrants that have survived hunters, governments, prisons, weapons, investigations, and years of increasingly unreliable stories. Some targets cannot be fought conventionally. Some cannot be found conventionally. Some turn the very act of pursuing them into the trap. The Dealer never intended them to be a ladder. Lucien decides to climb it anyway. The rewards are enormous. The professional access is better. The fame would be difficult to ignore. And according to one persistent rumor, something extraordinary waits for whoever manages to clear all ten. So Lucien and Quinn set out across a galaxy where every world plays by different rules: glittering starports, armored rail networks, rain-drowned courts, neon performance capitals, fortress moons, and whatever waits beyond them. Every warrant demands a different trick. And the farther he goes, the more dangerous one question becomes: Can a man who has spent his entire life controlling what everyone sees recognize when he is fooling himself? What to expect: Science-fantasy bounty hunting across changing planets and cultures System/Class progression without numerical levels or stat sheets Stage magic, sleight of hand, misdirection, escapology, traps, and deception Release Schedule: Daily.
