Parasite

When the System arrived and assigned every human a class, Mace Duren got the worst one on record. [CLASS: PARASITE. TIER: F.] No attack skills. No defense. No Guild will sponsor him. In a world where your class determines whether you eat or get processed for someone else's benefit, a Parasite is a resource — not a person. Eight months later, Mace is still alive. He has fifty-three integrated traits, a notebook full of data about his own wounds, and a Level 4 display he keeps deliberately suppressed. Because the System made one mistake when it handed him the worst class in existence: it didn't account for what happens when a Parasite refuses to die. Every wound is information. And Mace has been collecting. Now the Guilds are hunting him. A Tower has appeared in the middle of Kansas City with a World Class prize waiting at the top. And someone — somewhere above Floor 25 — built the Parasite class on purpose, as a key to something the System's architects never wanted found. PARASITE is a fast-paced LitRPG progression fantasy with a unique absorption mechanic, a morally complex cast, and a mystery buried inside a System that was never what it claimed to be. Perfect for fans of dungeon-climbing, underdog protagonists, and conspiracies that run deeper than the Tower itself. The Absorption Cycle continues in Book Two: HOST.