Dominion of Blades
Matt Dinniman
For over thirty years, Dominion of Blades was the hottest online role-playing game in the world, until real-life fatalities got immersion technology banned and the game shut down. Jonah wakes to find himself trapped in-game at level one with no memory of how he arrived and no way to eject. With only two companions in a world that once hosted millions, he must battle across a treacherous landscape of virtual monsters, all-too-real pain, and a very human enemy in a desperate bid to survive. A VRMMO LitRPG adventure by Matt Dinniman (author of Dungeon Crawler Carl).
Progression: VRMMO LitRPG with explicit game levels central to the story: the protagonist wakes trapped in-game at level one with no way to eject and must hack-and-slash his way to power across a monster-filled landscape. Advancement runs through levels, quests (including new-quest gating), and structured combat runs such as the Spiral tower-defense run guarding the hobgoblin capital. Publisher metadata subtitles the volumes 'A LitRPG Adventure'.
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