The Supreme Game

Felix Maxwell's first life ended the way treasure hunts end for the greedy: badly. Beneath a ruined city built by a race far older than humanity, past a gate of priceless amber stone, his exploration crew found a chained platform and a colorless flame that killed without being touched. He died screaming beside his clan mates, and the last thing he heard was laughter — Asna, an ancient witch sealed away for eons, whose soul had just been fused with his own.

Then he woke on Earth. Not rescued — reborn. A higher existence had thrown his merged soul into an alternate timeline, into the body he owned before the bloodline awakening that decides every human's fate. In his old life, Felix had integrated a bloodline so trashy that servitude was his best outcome, while criminal Organizations harvested newly awakened bloodliners like livestock, extracting their abilities for sale. He survived three kidnapping attempts and still died in the dark. This time, he remembers everything: which bets will pay, which investments will explode, which bloodlines will shake the galaxy — and which family members will die unless someone scares them straight.

He is not alone in his own head. Asna is gorgeous, maddening, and watching everything he does, including the parts he would rather keep private. She wants her freedom; he wants her knowledge of the bloodline system that once condemned him. The cold war between them runs on insults, bargains, and a spark neither of them will name. With her help, Felix shocks the elders who came to watch him fail: he walks out of his awakening with a legendary poison bloodline he passes off as a lucky bargain, while hiding the truth — that what actually sleeps in his veins is the legacy of a primogenitor, one of the ancient rulers of the universe.

Then come the Supremacy Games: a galactic arena where bloodliners gamble fame, fortune, and their lives on races through lava rivers, hunts across killer forests, and open slaughter. Registering under the anonymous persona Landlord, with the Queen — the supreme AI of the Universal Virtual Reality — quietly managing his empire, Felix does what no unranked newbie should be capable of: dismantles veterans with two bombs and a grin, and wins fortunes on the games he once only watched. But every victory tightens the noose. Rival families scheme against his clan, the Organization that hunted him now strips his homeworld of its children, and above the chessboard sit primogenitors and councils who treat entire planets as pieces.

The galaxy's most expensive question becomes unavoidable: who is Landlord? To the masses, a phenomenon; to his enemies, a monster wearing human skin. And when the creature hunting Earth finally adds up one tail, one poison, and far too many abilities, Felix's game stops being about hiding. It becomes about making everyone who bet against him — kidnappers, rivals, and self-proclaimed gods — learn exactly what it costs to touch his life, his family, and his planet.

Sharp-tongued, shameless, and impossible to embarrass, The Supreme Game is the story of a man dealt the worst hand in the universe, twice, who decided the house was the one that should bleed.