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Description

There are many games played on the world of Earth- some virtual, some board-bound, others much more real. For Grey Shor, the Apocalypse brings a game unlike any he’s seen before- one that pits him against all manner of monsters, both human and otherwise. In this new reality, he has but a single goal: win.

With the Apocalypse comes Evolutions- abilities that combine and level to transcend humanity. For Grey, this means Single Player, a power that allows him to play this new game by his own rules.

After fighting through the hell known as the Apocalypse's Tutorial, Grey returns to Earth, finding it poorly prepared for the hell ahead. Armed with information regarding the future and powers ripped straight from myth, he begins a game that will not only find its way to the annals of history, but change them forever.

The only way to save the world is to destroy it.

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This is a story inspired by Death Note, the System Apocalypse sub genre, and stories like Solo Leveling and The Gamer. Will it appeal to fans of those stories? I can only hope.

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2021
Author: m_auctor48

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 259
Views: 118,177

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Community Reviews(6)

KkingRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's almost impossible to find an intelligent MC that's only smart because of plot armor. Its evan harder to find a good anti hero who isn't ruled by there emotions or doesn't slowly turn good throughout the story. This story has the perfect combo, where you actually admire the character and his actions. My only complaint is that the story is so short.
LilleneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is not the story I expected from the title.
This is a PvP game set during a System Apocalypse. Grey has an enemy - another human. The reason they're enemies is that only one person can win.
Neither of them ever give a moment's thought to working together to achieve a goal; no, one of them must dominate, and they both know that and know the other believes the same.
This is not the usual kind of story I prefer, yet I read the whole thing. Well done, author. Here are your five stars. You deserve them.
Winged ThingRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The ideas on display here are very neat. The world is changing, and Grey, our MC has his goal. Quite simply, he wants to win. Not the battle, but the whole damned war.
So far, Grey seems driven, intellegent and self-motivated. Not so much a villain or psychopath, rather he's a man with a goal, a lot of competition and a world quite metaphorically going to the dogs in cataclysm/apocalypse manner.
Concept I noticed; Towers, Sub-space Dungeons, Blue Boxes [Though not too many], Race-to-Godhood, Skill/Trait combination & Evolution.
My score reflects the amount of potential I see in this one. So far, so good! Give it a read folks.
DrPhilly_cheese_steakRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I liked this book. It was a good read. The protagonist is not a hero, or even a full antihero. He's sociopathic, as his trauma throughout his life made him the way he is. His brother must have been a psychopath, and I think his father is one as well. Psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made.
It's an old science, and the interactions and perspectives of the characters make it an enjoyable read. 4.6-4.8 stars in my book. A worthwhile if not draining read.
Endure The ThirstRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Story- The Ultimate Player: When the author says that this was an inspired story he really meant it, you can tell after reading a couple of chapters. Most significant characters have hidden agendas & sides to their character, their is underlying and relatively undiscovered mystery to how the world functions after the Apocolypse, and a sensible direction for modern society to deterioate; all that either have to be pieced together by the reader or eventually the protag(death note style). Mix that with some adequate combat scenes/saucy Evolution leveling and this gets a chef kiss from the Archons. Not to deep but does it need to be?
Style- Detached, Descriptive, and Insightful: What I think benifits this story the most is the writing style, thoughts and depicitons are terse and to the point. Your given what you need to know for some theorization with a little bit of flavor text on the side to wash those subtle cues down. A boxed gift of interpretation. Even fights seem like carefully played games of chess where sacrifices are expected and knowing the intentions of an opponent are key to victory. Description of skill and flare is trumped by practical senses which meshes perfectly with the main characters M.O of using his big brainage to great success. Me like.
Grammar- Clean Bug Report: If there are any errors in text they are negligible, its been an overall smooth read so far.
Character- Numb and NOT dumb: Grey is one of my favorite character archetypes with Winged Thing summing him up pretty well in their review. Motivated soley towards his overarching goal with a meager few morals and duties that keep him going completely off the deep end(looking at you Light Yagami). Despite the near fanaticism Grey places upon the concept of winning there is a pretty realistic set-up for his behavior at the end of the world as we know it. I'd sum it up to be partly because of his warped upbringing(a few clues sprinkled here and there), the "desert" *shiver* which would mentally rav
IrbeginnerRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I really liked the book itself. The only thing I really have against it is the main character. This seems just like wizard in a warlock world where the characters just a complete sociopath instead of having any sort of overriding The character himself just seems really greedy as opposed to having a specific goal or something to work towards