I Can Take All of Them at Once: Full Spoiler Guide (Chad’s Cursed Build Book 2)

Six days after the Chain Market core died, bounty hunters ambush the party at dawn with “echo paper” wanted notices that rewrite Chad’s face between copies and name him a soul thief of exactly 812 souls. The number is the Varos reserve ledger — the Crowned Four’s own inventory with Chad’s face pasted on it. Book 2 of Chad’s Cursed Build is a fugitive LitRPG about propaganda, a municipal water grid that is secretly a soul ritual, and a tank who has to learn that threat management is a group activity.

What it is

Chad Baconizer, Level 12 to 24 Bloodguard, and his party — Zafira the Knife Dancer, Elka the Trail Archer, Ione the Ward Alchemist — track Elka’s brother Tomas north and discover the Soul Well of Varos is plumbed into all nine pump towers of the terraced water city of Salt Port: 38,204 registered “vessels,” 812 in reserve. The stored “souls” are living vows still attached to their makers; only 19 of 812 ever consented. The Crowned Four — Cedran Holt, Breck Tolland, Olya Prent, Sennik Dorr — are collecting Ascension Keys for a country-scale ritual, and Olya’s public miracles are the attack: every person she heals receives a hidden soul lien.

The System’s Private Link consent panels, Blood Mark ranks, the willing-carry skill Red Grip, and the new unlocks Intercept, Guard Line, Drain Ward and Raid Anchor are all on the page with fine print. The book’s central mechanic is a puzzle: how do you fight a boss whose health bar is a city?

Who will love it

Readers who enjoyed Book 1’s tank-build comedy and want the stakes scaled up to an entire city. It rewards MMO fluency — aggro, taunt, threat table, tank check, party wipe, cheese — with jokes built on it, and it is equally for explicit reverse-harem readers who want negotiated, on-page consent and non-competitive love interests who pursue each other as well as the lead. The villain’s whole method is refusing to accept women’s stated consent (every refusal raises a “coercion confidence” score), so it suits the reader who wants consent politics to be the antagonist rather than a content note.

Tropes

• Framed as a monster; propaganda-driven manhunt; whole country closed against them
• Corrupt sanctioned heroes as villains
• Rescue-the-sibling subplot with a bound guide
• Reverse harem / why-choose; F/F within the group not staged for the male lead
• Do-not-hit-the-city raid mechanics; no-damage boss clears
• Sacrificial-tank near-death at single-digit Health
• Forced-feminisation threat resisted; gender-bender treated seriously

What the book gives you

Four explicit scenes from chapter 6, each opened by a PRIVATE LINK CONSENT panel listing participants, what is and is not shared, and a clause that consent may be withdrawn at any time. Ione stops mid-encounter because she cannot tell which want she is obeying, and the System records “stopping point honored: YES / future access implied: NO.” The Varos precedent “absence of refusal is not consent” is the ruling that beats the dungeon. And a tank arc with a real turn: at 63 of 330 Health with every hook of a vow cage in him, Chad cancels his own taunt and says “group threat.”

Content notes

Explicit sex between adults; a dungeon offering to erase the protagonist’s memory of being a man; state defamation and manufactured criminal records; systematic denial of stated consent; past harem captivity discussed; poisoning, nets, iron collars; an entire city on a lethal drain timer, crowd crush and structural collapse; non-consensual vow harvesting and permanent liens; pain transfer across the party; grief over five people who could not be saved; unwanted sexual attention and misgendering.

Full plot, with spoilers

At Varos Shrine the dungeon dresses Chad as a bride for a projection of Prince Halric Ovest, three empty cradles behind him, and prices refusal at 812 stolen vows. He refuses the role; the three women break the crown, veil and ring anchors by declaring chosen bonds without ownership. Cedran’s party then walks in through an upper gate and takes the lock the party just cleared. Zafira shares a private night with Chad and, afterward, the court memory that unlocks the lower route: “witnessed service freely withdrawn.”

The choice: with Olya siphoning vows and Cedran four minutes from Key Two, the party votes 4–0 to abandon the Key contest and extract the vessels. Five vows are lost; 807 are saved; Cedran claims the second Key. At the shrine exit, Ione’s relay-lens comparison proves Record 44-8 — the public safety record naming Chad a predator — was created eight hours before the event it describes, naming Olya and Breck as operators and Sennik as compositor. Tomas’s route bond shatters, producing thirteen sealed truth copies.

Breck’s soul-account indexing script hunts the party through the plumbing; they beat it by assigning their own accounts a valid destination, and Breck seals all nine city gates, trapping 38,204 people inside the crisis he built. The darkest moment is the vow cage: it takes every silver hook into Chad alone until he says “group threat” and the three women each carry an anchor. The city becomes one boss bar with a 43-minute death timer. Sennik strips Chad’s hood on every public panel and authorises lethal force. Chad accepts the Floodworks defender contract — all 38,204 residents assigned to him as threat — buying a twenty-minute buffer, and spends part of it in the pressure berth with Elka.

In the Drowned Treasury, Ione splits the resident ledger from the ritual shell, revealing the machine’s four command struts — CLAIM, CONSUME, ASCEND, OBEY — painted over the original waterworks functions: MAINTAIN PRESSURE, BALANCE FLOW, ISOLATE FAILURE, RETURN EXCESS. The machine was built to give life back. Chad substitutes himself for a whole city drain cycle at one Health while the women hold his transferred Health in custody and return it phase by phase. Drain Ward routes the excess through the old municipal RETURN path and the city’s Health moves upward for the first time.

The ending (spoiler)

The Floodworks Custodian is beaten by opening four sluice gates and breaking five pressure locks, body damage zero. Chad twice refuses to claim Key Three because claiming it means administering 19,102 liens; Cedran accepts instantly. With nine minutes on the Key barrier and six on the first district collapse, Chad chooses the streets: seventeen foundation failures cleared, 3,406 residents moved, zero Health lost. At the broken harbour Tomas jumps backward to snap his own route bond taut so Elka’s arrow can cut it; Cedran’s strikes damage his own claim shield because Ione’s separation ward holds; Chad refuses the shortcut that would spend 116 residents; and the Crowned Four gate away with three Keys. Sennik’s final record uses only genuine footage, 47 minutes out of order, and the relay denies the party’s proof because the submitters are fugitives.

Tomas stays behind as a living witness with thirteen sealed truth copies and a plain arrow from Elka whose meaning he refuses to declare. Marked HOSTILE at 4,811 gates and 12,604 checkpoints, the four take an unlisted aqueduct toward Vey — the identity-record city where the fourth ritual node waits. Chad’s last line: he can take the world’s hate as long as the women beside him still choose the road.

Where it sits in the series

Book 2 of four. Read Nice Body, Wrong Loadout first; continue to Our Heroes Specced Into Genocide.

Reader Questions

Book page: I Can Take All of Them at Once: A Runaway Party With Terrible Threat Management. Author guide: Jax A. River. Browse the full catalogue at Centuria Books.