Blightbound

Cal never expected to become a hero.He mops the floors of the company that owns the world's biggest VR game, barely earning enough to keep his younger sister alive. The champions he cleans up after are celebrities. Gods. They don't even notice he exists.Then he finds something in the trash.A discarded account.A broken dive rig.A character everyone agrees is the worst build in Mythreign.A Mirefolk.A Forager.A joke.With no money for a better life and nothing left to lose, Cal logs in anyway.But deep beneath the game's forgotten swamp lies a secret the developers tried to erase—a hidden class so powerful they buried it beneath ridicule and made the entire world believe it never existed.Now every poisonous plant makes him stronger.Every monster everyone else avoids becomes an ally.And every high-level player who enters the swamp leaves wondering what nightmare is hunting them.As the legend of the mysterious Bog-Thing spreads across the server, the world's greatest champion sets out to crush the "e;bugged"e; nobody before millions of viewers.They think they're walking into a beginner zone.They're walking into his kingdom.