NPC for Hire: A LitRPG Adventure (The Ascension Protocol Book 1)
The Ascension Protocol #1
They cut his strings. Now the system wants him back. He broke the rules, and a player died. Now something in the code is hunting him. NPCs aren't supposed to notice when the world glitches. Fen noticed. He used to train legends. Now he sends clueless players off to gather mystical berries. While training a batch of button-mashers in a forgotten corner of the SynthNet, the world cracks open — and he watches fractured versions of himself make choices he hasn't made yet. He knows two things: there is something behind the code, and it is after him. The glitches follow him. So does something that knows his name. He won't face it alone. Auri — an ancient AI who uses her world-bending powers to mostly mess with new players — has been hiding something enormous behind every joke since the beginning. And Seraph, a freelance fighter who could land any contract in the SynthNet, chose to stay by his side instead. In a world that rewrites itself every day, that choice means everything. "They couldn't erase you. So they buried you instead. Rewrote you." For readers who care more about the story than the stat sheets and grind — once you've seen behind the code, you can't look away.
