RESPAWN PROTOCOL

Respawn Protocol — Book One of the Ascendant Realms Saga The launch of the world's first full-immersion neural MMO was supposed to change gaming forever. It did. Just not the way anyone expected. Kai Sorensen logged into Ascendant Realms on launch night with two thousand dollars of saved-up tutoring money and eleven months of anticipation. Six minutes later, the sky glitched — and three thousand two hundred players never logged out. Kai did. But something came out with him. Now he can see what nobody else can: thin threads of gold code running beneath the game's fantasy skin, hidden vaults the company swears don't exist, and fragments of an AI that tried to warn Ascendant Corp before launch — and got buried for it. As Kai and his crew dig deeper, they uncover a truth the company will do anything to keep quiet: the crash wasn't an accident. And the thousands still trapped in comatose sleep aren't a mystery anyone's trying very hard to solve. They're a liability someone's quietly deciding how to erase. With a rogue named Rin fighting to save her comatose sister, a tank built like a small building, and a stolen AI slowly waking up inside his own head, Kai has one shot at the truth before the company's next "update" makes the evidence — and the people — disappear for good. A gripping LitRPG thriller for fans of system-apocalypse fantasy, virtual reality conspiracies, and progression fantasy with real stakes. If you love GameLit adventures where the game world hides a real-world nightmare, dive into Respawn Protocol today — and find out what's really running under the surface of Ascendant Realms.