Since Nexus Runner book 1 is now LIVE on Amazon, I had to stub the first 75 chapters. This is a brief review of those deleted chapters.

  Lucas Altan, his Brother Tomas, Tomas's girlfriend Jane, and two of their friends are among 1000 people teleported from a remote part of Colorado to a world called Arasha, where a deadly game is hosted.

  They wake up alone, barely dressed, with the overly-friendly AI who runs the game as their only companion. They are welcomed with a starter pack of abilities and spells and explained the simple game.

  1. Find your team - everyone has up to 5 people in a randomly-assigned team who start fairly close to each other.

  2. Gather together and defeat the stage boss within one week, then climb to stage 2.

  3. They have one month total - about one week per stage - to fight through four monster-infested stages of the game world and defeat the final boss. If they fail, they will all die and Earth will be mined for resources and destroyed.

  Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

  Talk about motivation!

  Lucas finds he has a knack for killing monsters, and the AI offers him a chance to participate in a little experiment. He can basically restart as a tier-1 human at level 1, but with the potential to gain enormous levels of additional power over anyone else, who are all still tier-0 baby humans.

  The catch? In the short term, he does not have access to all that power. He will level much slower and must kill up to ten times as many monsters as anyone else. If he manages to reach level 10 like everyone else within that first week and pass all of the tests that the AI - named Cyrus - throws in his path, then he'll prove he's worthy of the investment the AI is making on him and ready to begin the accelerated power curve.

  The tests are brutal. Lucas struggles to level and kill enough monsters. Despite pushing himself to the limits over and over again, he ends up having to fight a special boss monster in the closing seconds of the first stage. After an insane fight through the apocalyptic meltdown of stage 1, he makes it over the finish line.

  End of book 1.

  Definitely go buy the ebook, or listen to the audiobook because book 1 is truly epic.

  (I'll post the linkin the post-chapter content.)

  And so the story continues. . .

  https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0G175GJDT