Path of Transcendence [WN]

Author: Akoriv
Path of Transcendence - Book 1: Ultimatum of the Nameless God

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WARNING: This story contains rather graphic descriptions of violence, gore, sex and sexual violence. NOTE: (Just to avoid any misplaced expectations.) Despite being on Royal Road, this is not a Light novel. This is a Dark Fantasy. Taereun: Battleground of the Damned was never really a game. Running for over twelve years, the so-called most realistic virtual reality game ever released was a testing ground to find minds and souls for the The Nameless God to use. For tens of thousands of players, what they thought was a just a game became reality, when they were put in the bodies of their characters. The Nameless God told them that he would return them to their real lives, if they fought through the Labyrinth of Yggr and freed his body from beneath the city of Haven. After searching for over 11 years, they found the Gate leading to Haven. Mark McGuinness, a college student, was left scarred and disfigured in an automobile accident, when he was a child. Angry, bitter and disgusted with the world, he used Taereun: Battleground of the Damned to take out his frustration and anger at the world, so he would not lose control and hurt or kill someone in real life. In Taereun, he was Talon, a Half-Dvergar monk, a hybrid freak created by the forced union of a Dvergar and a human woman using magic. Once the game became real, he remained mostly a loner, one of the explorers who sought out the path to Haven, but Talon was murdered right before the gate was opened. Waking up in a hospital, in his original scarred body, Mark McGuinness intends to return to Taereun. He has debts to pay, and anyone who gets in his way had best be ready to lose their life.

Book 1 is complete, and the chapters of Book 2 is estimated to be out in 1 ~ 2 weeks from now. This is a very well written fiction with a mix of fantasy and sci-fi themes, and those who have dabbled in Western MMORPGs should feel right at home with its modern settings and jargons such as 'Noobageddon'.

Path of Transcendence [WN]