In Place of Echoes

Self-Published

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Description

When the world ended, Gareth Hargrove wasn’t taken.

Everyone else — his wife, his children, his friends — were integrated. Threaded into a System that swallowed humanity in a single heartbeat. But the code rejected Gareth. Now alone in a glitched, biomechanical wasteland the System calls Nullspace, he’s hunted by broken echoes of the people he loves, haunted by the memory of their last moments, and trailed by the only companion the System failed to overwrite: a cat-shaped glitch called Patch.

In Place of Echoesis a dark LitRPG/System Apocalypse story that blends glitch horror, psychological survival, and emergent system mechanics. It’s about memory, recursion, and what it means to matter in a world that erased you.

No chosen ones. No neat quests. Just a broken man, a broken world, and a system that wants him corrected.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2025
Author: Ech0404

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 10
Views: 12,353

Chapters(88 total)

What readers say about In Place of Echoes

“Having a team of familiars myself, never underestimate the power of a mog! Also, the whole prot not being a teen is refreshing. I’m pretty sure every parent can relate to this in some way. I like how ‘normal’ everyone is at the start, like you could be sitt…”
Cass ReignRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Cass ReignRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Having a team of familiars myself, never underestimate the power of a mog! Also, the whole prot not being a teen is refreshing. I’m pretty sure every parent can relate to this in some way. I like how ‘normal’ everyone is at the start, like you could be sitting in their living room. Pretty much how my own family acts at the weekend. Looking forward to the next drop.