Battle Trucker
Tom Goldstein
When the System descends on Earth and turns survival into a monstrous game, long-haul trucker Jill 'Junkmouth' MacLeod drives her turreted, soulbound forty-ton semi Bertha two thousand miles east toward her family in Boston, killing for mana and score. In book 2 the highway becomes a battleground for thousands of survivors as Jill levels, loots, and mega-upgrades Bertha against ever-stronger monsters on an expanded, wilder Earth.
Progression: System-apocalypse LitRPG: the System descends on Earth and enrolls humanity in a lethal game where killing monsters earns mana and score (book 1). Survivors gain experience, levels, and loot, which protagonist Jill MacLeod channels into upgrading Bertha, her magical soulbound forty-ton semi (turrets, armor, transformation) while facing ever-stronger, smarter monsters as ambient magic grows (book 2). Explicit level/XP/loot advancement is central to the plot.
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