The Beacon - Hopeful LitRPG (Book 1 Finished - 200k words)

Ioan, an analytical martial artist is thrown into a jungle apocalypse by a mysterious System, forced to fight and think his way through brutal survival trials that punish hesitation and reward creativity, he believes that he can't do everything and true strength is born from the group Leah moves first and thinks later, raw, impulsive, and almost impossible to keep still, she throws herself into danger without waiting for a plan, but her instincts in a fight are keep her alives. Eliot is Leah counterweight: patient, easygoing, and slow to anger, but once he plants himself somewhere, nothing moves him, the pillar the rest of the group learns to fight around, if anything wants to endanger the group, it needs to go through him first Tasia watches before she speaks, trusting slowly and noticing everything, her precision at range making her the one who catches the threat no one else sees coming Anne is softer on the surface, but far harder to shake than she looks, her compassion is not a weakness but a choice, and when pushed, it becomes a quiet, stubborn, kind of courage, she's the heart of the group