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As privatized Hunter Agencies and scouts watch elite performers, Rhett’s name becomes a trigger for competing internet theories—from literal doomsday countdowns to cyclical reset histories—while immediate post-battle aftermath settles around him and his companions.","BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE  \nBook 2 : Lightbringer  \nBy J.R Wales  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © [2026] by [J.R Wales] All rights reserved.  \nNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission from the author, except for brief quotations used in reviews or articles.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nCHAPTER TWO  \nCHAPTER THREE  \nCHAPTER FOUR  \nCHAPTER FIVE  \nCHAPTER SIX  \nCHAPTER SEVEN  \nCHAPTER EIGHT  \nCHAPTER NINE  \nCHAPTER TEN  \nCHAPTER ELEVEN  \nCHAPTER TWELVE  \nCHAPTER THIRTEEN  \nCHAPTER FOURTEEN  \nCHAPTER FIFTEEN  \nCHAPTER SIXTEEN  \nCHAPTER SEVENTEEN  \nCHAPTER EIGHTEEN  \nCHAPTER NINETEEN  \nCHAPTER TWENTY  \nCHAPTER TWENTY-ONE  \nCHAPTER TWENTY-TWO  \nCHAPTER TWENTY-THREE  \nCHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR  \nCHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE  \nCHAPTER TWENTY-SIX  \nCHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN  \nEPILOGUE  \nAfterword  \nAlso by J.R. Wales  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nClass: [Scorned Starscourge] has reached Level 81. +3 Free Improvement Points.  \nCongratulations, Child of the Stars.  \n“Annoying piece of…” Rhett mumbled a curse.“Always with the Epithet.”  \nHe simply couldn’t stop getting that phrase shoved into his face, be it by the System or others.  \nChild of the Stars…at face value, that Epithet must be referencing his ties to the Starline Sponsors or his possession of stellar mana. But because of the problematic nature of anything System-related, he now knew of several different ways to interpret the phrase. As it sadly turned out, his guess a month ago, fresh from the System Event, was right. There had been a public broadcast to the Favored regarding the top performers in every System Event Region. And because the D-Ranks finished last, that meant everyone’s attention was on it.  \nNot that it was ever a possibility that people wouldn’t pay attention, though.  \nNow, yes. Rhett could see why the new and bustling business culture of privatized Hunter Agencies, or Government scouts, wanted to see who among the pinnacle of humanity was worth looking at. Perhaps even pickup and invest into some diamond in the rough nobody’s heard of, or some quiet independent hunter who managed to make a name for themselves in the event.  \nBut at the same time, some people were just tunnel-visioned on useless things like the fact that the top ranker of the Western European Event wasn’t a name, but a lengthy and fantasy-sounding title.  \nIt didn’t take a genius either to figure out it was Rhett who was dubbed by that title instead of his name.  \nThe internet, predictably, lost its mind.  \nRhett sat against the remains of a collapsed wall, one arm resting across his knee, and let his eyes drift over the waterlogged street below while Julia picked glass out of a cut on Jason’s shoulder and Jason pretended it didn’t hurt. The coastal city was quiet now after they just finished closing a troublesome Gate here. The air still tasted like salt and ozone, heavy with the lingering static of crushed monsters, but the immediate threat was gone. Only the aftermath remained, one of shattered storefronts, puddles reflecting the dimming sky, and the relentless buzz of cleanup crews picking up after them.  \nHe sighed, pulling up his phone to pick through the matter at hand. With all the publicity tied to the newest addition to his lengthy list of names or titles—this time with official System recognition—conspiracy theorists, or “analysts” as Julia would call them online or in person, interpreted his name in many, many different ways. Some of them he hadn’t considered. Others were so far out of left field that someone like Jason or Julia immediately wrote them off, but not Rhett. He knew it was still kind of hard for them to wrap their head around the cunning cruelty of the System the way he could. 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