Bushido Online
Nikita Thorn
Seth Kinnaman's dream was to become the best fighter the world has ever seen - until an illegal blow in the tournament semi-finals left him blind and his dreams shattered. Introduced to Bushido Online, a VRMMORPG set in feudal Japan, a land of ninjas and samurai where mythical creatures roam free, he enters a new reality as Seiki and rebuilds himself from a blind newcomer into a leveled ronin of Shinshioka: grinding levels, trade skills and dungeon runs, surviving clan wars and griefers, earning his first troops from the Shogun, and climbing the military ranks through the War Games.
Progression: VRMMORPG LitRPG with explicit quantified advancement. Seiki progresses through numbered character levels (Level 10 ronin in book 2; hits level 14 to unlock his first troops in book 3), trade skills, leveled combat skills, instanced dungeons with percentage drop rates (Nezumi Temple rat dungeon), and a military rank ladder - earning a unit from the Shogun and climbing ranks through the War Games against the Demonic Clan - layered with clan politics and territory warfare. Structured advancement is central to every volume.
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