Rat's Guide to Survival [Book one complete+short hiatus]

Sixteen years. Sixteen years spent clinging to life, sixteen years ended in one instant. It wasn’t exactly a great life, but even still, he wanted to live. He wanted to live so, so desperately, and despite that, it simply didn’t matter. For all the will in the world wouldn’t be enough to keep a broken body from coming apart at the seams. Yet even still, he grasped desperately for the sky. For the light, ethereal and faint. ...Despite his strength failing him, his lifeless palm hitting the sand, his hand met something all the same. Waking in a form not his own in a world alien to him in every way conceivable, Nile is thrown into an entirely new life. A brutal land that holds him in absolutely no regard, and a body that could never be his own, given to him as little more than a cruel joke. Yet despite everything, the world saw fit to give him one last chance. Strangely, numbers and words that he should have no understanding of promise him power. Power that he can grasp, bend to his will, to grow. Power to live his life, and while it wouldn't be what he always wanted, it would still be a life. All he had to do was crawl. Rat’s Guide To Survival is equal parts number-go-up-yummy LitRPG fantasy, and an exploration into what it means to not merely survive, but to live your life to the fullest. For fans of LitRPG that find most works lacking in restraint, character, or both, RGtS will find a place in your heart. (Though in case that didn't satisfy you)What to expect!-2k long chapters at a baseline. Oftentimes much longer. Generally below 4k words.-2 Chapters per week unless specified otherwise. Tue/Thurs. +Correction Quota bonus chapters-Unbelievably weak to strong to stronger.-Environments and monsters are both problems.-Monster MC. And it stays that way thank you very much! At least, for the foreseeable future.-MC has precisely zero knowledge of LitRPG and any of its tropes. Or of gaming in general. Do not expect minmaxing.-Very traumatized MC with a lot of baggage that’s avoidant of thinking about it. The story is not grimdark, or even close to it, and it has comedic moments, but it is not afraid to get down to business. (For the record, the "sensitive content" tag is a hesitant addition. It's not that deep.)-Extremely unreliable narrator that gets better from book to book. This includes descriptions of locations, creatures, and the MCs own state of mind.-Moderate pacing. RGtS is planned to be about 4 books long, 150k-200k each. With each individual arc (usually) being around 50k words/20 chapters.