by Riven RedPaw
John Wakefield’s life was painfully ordinary. Commute. Office. Sleep. Repeat. Until ancient beings reached across worlds and tore him from it. Dragged into a realm known as The Nexus, John is forced into a system that feels disturbingly familiar—race selection, class choices, stats, levels. A gamer’s dream… except this isn’t a game. Now reborn as Dahrin Shadowblade, a halfling rogue in a world shaped by forgotten civilizations and hidden overseers, he must learn to survive in a land where power is measured, choices have weight, and something far older than the system is watching. Because the ritual that summoned him wasn’t random. He wasn’t chosen to be a hero. He was summoned to be used. But broken pawns have a habit of becoming something far more dangerous
