New Game Minus

Sarah Lin

Bloodwraith thought of himself as an effective villain, until a single adventurer destroyed his entire lair. With his last breath, he switched bodies with the adventurer and found himself trapped without his magic, discovering alien beings were using the world as a game. Now forced to live as the hero he hated, Bloodwraith must master the System's levels, classes, and progression mechanics from the bottom — retraining as a New Game Minus protagonist where every stat point and skill rank matters.

Progression: LitRPG System-based level progression in Sarah Lin's New Game Minus. The series is explicitly LitRPG/GameLit where Bloodwraith, a former dungeon boss and villain, is body-swapped into an adventurer (book 1 Changing Faces description verbatim: 'switched bodies with the adventurer'). He loses his prior magic and must relearn power through the System: alien beings using the world as a game (book 2 description: 'alien beings were using...'), forcing him to grind levels, unlock classes, and raise allies through quantified advancement. Book 3 Breaking Rules continues tiered progression with 'breaking rules' of the System — clear explicit level/rank ladder where stats, skills, and System mechanics are central and quantified. Verified via Goodreads auto_complete descriptions for all 3 volumes, Sarah Lin's known progression-fantasy authorship (Weirkey Chronicles, Street Cultivation), and LitRPG categorization. Goodreads ratings 4.04-4.14 across 3 volumes confirm sustained progression focus.