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Elias Venn sees failure before it happens.
A hairline crack in a system-approved blade. A weak seam beneath a monster's armor. Something valuable buried in scrap everyone else has written off.
In the Seed World, food, shelter, rank, and even the Life Right needed to return to Earth must be earned. Elias has no combat rating, no patron, and no certification. What he does have is an eye for how things break.
When a defective blade snaps inside a mine and a teammate pays in blood, Elias proves the weapon was faulty. The system still marks his team as failures, and the people who issued the blade would rather bury the evidence than admit what happened.
To survive, Elias will have to turn discarded tools, overlooked fighters, and closed doors into leverage of his own.
If the established factions will not give him a path home, he will build one.