The Third Apocalypse
Wolfe Locke & Mike Caliban
Decades after the System's arrival brought monsters, dungeon gateways and blue screens, even the King of the Crows — the regressor who mastered the System — could not stop mankind's fall. To fight an Elder God, the mark of the regressor is passed to Jax Nolan, the Third Regressor, sent back to the start of the apocalypse with the Regressors' Key, a weapon carrying memories through time. Across three volumes Jax relives a diverging timeline, outpaces allies the System did not bless, and descends toward the Dungeon of the Deepest Realm and the ascension promised by the great spirit Amarath.
Progression: System-governed LitRPG with regressor (second-chance time-return) mechanics, verified from Goodreads volume blurbs: blue-screen System grants player power after monsters spawn and dungeon gateways open; progression runs through stats, skills/skill descriptions, levels, dungeon and tower climbs. The King of the Crows mastered the System and seized keys of absolute authority; his successor Jax Nolan, the Third Regressor, inherits the Mark of the Regressor and Regressors' Key, a peerless weapon carrying memories and thoughts through time. Later progression targets ascension via the Underrealm and the great spirit Amarath (Vol III-IV), with power gaps between System-blessed regressor and non-blessed allies as an explicit tension.
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