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Dark academia isn't the aesthetic. It's the cover-up. You can win the hand, but every victory costs a piece of your soul....
Silas’s hand closed around Kane’s throat the moment the forbidden card dealt him his first impossible win. “I’m the Collector,” the cold stranger murmured. “Now pay me in soul.” Every victory lets Kane steal another card, another power, another chance to climb out of Knox City’s gutter—but each one tears away a piece of him. Bound by a death pact, he must hunt contract-breakers through the neon streets while Silas watches, controls, and tightens the leash around his life. Yet the more Kane fights his owner, the more he suspects Silas isn’t trying to kill him… but turn him into the one variable capable of winning a wager for godhood. Kane can hunt the next breaker and surrender more of his soul—or turn the cards against Silas and risk losing everything in the very first hand.
Genre
System & LitRPG
Tags
EnemiesToLovers · ForcedProximity · SlowBurn · DarkRomance
Language
English
Length
23 chapters · Ongoing
Published
Sep 1, 2026
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