First Raid Clear

Seventeen lives. One health bar.The road to County One has already decided how much Cole Mercer can lose. Behind its white boundary marker, people are being counted as parts of a single protected unit. In the fields beyond it, discarded builds offer all the strength he wants and none of the wounds he brought. Every perfect answer has something missing.Cole knows what a useful skill looks like under pressure. He is about to learn what happens when the System decides which people deserve to keep one. Mara's ruined gear still has a job. June's injured paw still has limits. Six strangers with no levels are drawing the attention of something that notices numbers.The settlement behind him needs these people home. To get them through, Cole will have to turn bad tools and separate choices into a party the dungeon cannot flatten. The raid has room for every build. Its rules would prefer fewer people.