Die Trying · Volume 1
Die Trying: Book 1
- Progression
- LitRPG
- Series status
- Ongoing
Book 1 of the Royal Road serial, ongoing (167 chapters since 2025-07-10, weekly Monday updates): Michael Wade, stuck in retail hell, takes a desperate god's side hustle running a nightly smuggling operation between his bedroom and a post-apocalyptic fantasy deathworld - smuggling magical loot and refugees back to Earth while the heroes who were meant to save that world failed centuries ago. Armed with a reality-bending video-game System to exploit, years as a min/maxing fanatic, and a chaotic god texting questionably useful advice, he discovers and stacks new builds run after run (volume span from verified Royal Road chapter list; plot from verified series synopsis).