Riley stood on the northern battlement of the Hackney fortress and watched dawn crack over a city that no longer screamed.Six months. Six months since the Siege Crab died in the Thames and its corpse had to be carved apart by Galacian cutters over three weeks because nothing else could breach the carapace. Six months since Miko grabbed the front of his ruined suit and kissed him in waist-deep river water while a thousand strangers cheered and the System branded him with a title he hadn't asked for.*SIEGE BREAKER. +50 Attack Power against enemies of a higher level.*He'd learned since then that System-given titles carried weight among the galactics—Fenrathi and Galacians both—because they were only awarded for heroic acts you survived, and on a dungeon world, surviving heroic acts was the exception rather than the rule. Vorath had looked at him differently after the title appeared. Illythia had simply nodded, as though the System had confirmed something she already knew.London looke