Heretical Edge
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Most easily classified as an urban fantasy/detective/action, Heretical Edge revolves around Felicity 'Flick' Chambers, a teenage girl who is brought into the hidden world of the supernatural when she is accepted as a student at Crossroads Academy, a place where humans known as Heretics train to hunt and kill the creatures known as Strangers, monsters from mythology who secretly prey upon humanity. Heretics fight these Strangers using a combination of fighting prowess and a unique blend of magic and technology. Soon, Flick learns that not everything at this school, or her own past is as it appears to be. Questions continue to mount, as Flick and her new classmates struggle to survive in this dangerous new world, while discovering the truth about the connection between Heretics and Strangers.
Progression: Progression Fantasy with explicit quantified advancement tagged 'Progression' on Royal Road (genre array + fiction-tag verified). Crossroads Academy training provides structured tiered advancement: Heretic ranks, class-year progression, and magic-technology combat mastery. Students advance through curriculum of hunting Strangers — mythological monsters with explicit power tiers — using unique blend of magic and technology that improves via training, field missions, and detective-case advancement. Described by author/community as "Progression Fantasy, Supernatural Noir/Detective stories and YA Adventure" and Reddit r/ProgressionFantasy confirms: "definitely progression fantasy." 4,183,333 words (15,212 pages), 2,647,563 views, 4.57/5 from 161 ratings, with academy-year structure and Stranger threat tiers providing central, explicit ladder rather than background growth.
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