Into the Black

Self-Published

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Description

The first truly immersive Virtual Reality system has just been announced. Made by NERV, the EVA-series immersion pods promise a Better Than Life experience, unlike anything that's been seen before. Gone are clunky goggles and wired controls. Now you simply lie down, and the machine does all the work.

Following up on their previous hit games, NERV has created the first true VRMMORPG, a sci-fi offering calledDreams Amongst the Stars. Because of the impressive display he made during the closed Beta of the game, one player has been offered a contract as a paid streamer, and the chance to play the game on the highest difficulty possible. Watch as he forges his own path, into the black.

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2017
Author: Mirikon

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0

Chapters(386 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

tarakisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This book is soooooo Awesome!!! The Author is a fantastic Genius, his writing is awesome, the story grabs you, shakes you and keeps you wanting MOAR!! The style is great, grammar problem are a non issue. The characters are detailed and lovable or hateable, their individual stories mesh very well. But the absolute BEST thing about this book is the Patch notes and Trade chat!!!!
:D CHEERS (c)
PlasmaXJRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love this story.
I don't know what else to say. Space operas are the best, and not enough people write them. Throw in VRMMO gameworld with relatively real science and also crazy fantasy science, you get something I just can't stop reading.
This is why I recommend this story to all.
Shadow13Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great take on a Sci-Fi VR novel done right!!
The story plot, game world powers and rules, as well as the characters and enemies/challenges to overcome are all EXCELLENT!!!
MC not too OP but still gradually builds up strength and influence along the way using luck, schemes, and intelligence.
ONE OF MY CLASSIC VR LIGHT NOVELS!!!
SandsforeverRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Ch 190
I read authors books on kindle too
I cant stay away I read until i catch up then wait a month or two then come back for more
Sure maybe some slight editing issues but (in my "book" lol) it doesn't take away from the story
Anywho love your writing
Ch253
Still good
ArmouredWizardRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
great theme, good enviroment, mc overpowered, understandable motives and action, reasonable science mumbo jumbo and it fills the void for other novels(the gam3).
now lets hope it doesnt disapear anytime soon.
post script RATED BY ROYAL ROAD STANDARD
Gilgamesh137Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
good story, love the main character, many annoying others POV though. One major inconsistency too... log off has been described in two ways. the nomads vanish, or an AI version of them was left behind. could see no consistency between the two... unless only slave nomads leave a AI version of themselves behind. Minor thing was after the trade chat Mollen signed-in in the middle of despite talking in later trade chats his name wasn't seen at the start again til xiii or xiv.
kspnRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I just finished Binge Reading everything up to Chapter 241 and I quite enjoyed it.
AdammaxRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
This review may contain minor spoilers, you have been warned.
I made it to chapter 30 before I decided to stop reading. The premise of this story wasn’t bad but not original. I like that you used a science fiction setting instead of a fantasy based setting. However, everything prior to character creation was only adequate. It was neither compelling nor interesting. However, it wasn’t long enough to complain about. I also don’t see how knowing the main character is wheel chair bound or the rest of the back story presented, is important/relevant to the rest of the story. In short, everything before character creation needs some TLC.
The supporting characters are as flat as can be. Apart from their name, gender, race and status—I don’t know anything about them as individuals. There are two exceptions to this rule. I know that the elfish one was a virgin. I also know more about the princess however; even her character isn’t fleshed out that well. These facts, along with their slavery status are all the facts, I as a reader know about the supporting characters. They also lack individual personalities and all sound the same in the dialog. They lack any quarks that make your characters, individually unique or interesting.
The main character (I forget his name) comes across as slightly impersonal/uncaring who is out on a joyride. I really like the premise for the main character’s avatar and think his build has a lot of potential. However, your MC also comes across a flat and kind of numb. This guy is trapped in a wheel chair for the rest of his life and probably can’t even feel is lower ‘member’ even if he can get an erection. He then is sent into a virtual world where he can walk/run/fight and fuck again. Think about how amazing that would be to experience if you were in that situation. Now look at your main characters reaction. I’m paraphrasing here but it went something along the lines of “Oh yeah, I didn’t have any problems walking or moving about in the game” Where is
TheSandsOfDeceptionRoyal Road
★ 1.0
I'm sure there are good things about this. Somewhere. The Main Character is given a supposedly "hard" scenario to work with, designed to be utterly nightmarish in it's difficulty. Only, it's actually pathetically easy, the Main Character does no wrong, is given massive advantages from the start, and has more plot armour than a fan-fiction self insert, to the point that key abilities that the Main Character has been literally bred for are supposedly "overlooked" by those that bred him.
If you're going to write an OP self-insert, at least have the decency to mark it as such
MangoAutomataRoyal Road
★ 0.5
Read up to chapter 16. The writing is fine, but the story is cringeworthy and I find the treatment of women repugnant.
The MC is never challenged by any adversity. Everything is a cakewalk. This is a literary power trip, pure wish fulfillment. An adolescent male sex and power fantasy.
The MC starts in "nightmare mode", but all this does is give him a bunch of extra character points, and a unique race as a science experiment. Oh, and a huge penis.
He starts out in a jail of sorts, where he gets lots of sex training. He fucks and murders a female jailor to escape.
The above chapter was reported and removed from RR, and so the author links to it offsite while excoriating the people who reported it as "whiny little shits" and "little bitches".
Note that while the MC has no brain implants to control his character, both brain bombs and personality control electronics almost comes standard with all other slaves.
Soon after escaping, he knowingly delivers a cargo of conditioned sex slaves, and buys himself a slave crew. He does not free them. They are all female.
One is repeatedly referred to as "the sullen sexpot" and "my pretty little Nomad" which means this is a real person he's talking to, a player.
He keeps referring to the rules of acquisition, a Star Trek Ferengi reference, a culture that treats its women as property who are not even allowed to wear clothing.
He is attacked by a band of player thugs. One is female. He kills the men, so they will respawn. He turns the one woman into a mentally controlled sex slave who works for him in the nearest brothel. Again, this is a player. It will be three months before she can make a new character.
The author pays homage to a literary universe from "the dark side of Tumblr", by including a society that uses nanotech to alter women mentally and physically into doglike pets. The mental changes are permanent. He finds some of this nanotech on the thugs. He intends to sell it. Not destroy it.
At this point I stopped reading.