The Atomic Chameleon: A Tactical LitRPG
by AlphaCamel
ActionAdventureAnti-Hero LeadFantasyLitRPG
An amateur plans a murder. A professional designs the aftermath.
Shy Ben-David spent his adult life doing work Israel could never admit ordering. Mossad called him the Zikit: the Chameleon.
Now in his mid-sixties and dying of cancer, he is offered one final operation when reality tears open in the desert:
Walk into the impossible with a nuclear bomb wired to his heartbeat.
He is not expected to survive.
He does.
The crossing remakes him: young, whole, and carrying enough nuclear fire to draw a god's attention. Then the Arbiter of Gluttony takes ninety percent of it and throws Shy into a frozen abyss at Level One.
The System calls it cosmic mugging.Rules, apparently, are rules.
Shy is left with ten percent of a miracle, a lifetime of tradecraft, and a world of Levels, Skills, monsters, and gods to survive.
So he does what he has always done: learns the rules, finds the lies, maps the pressure points, and starts looking for the exploit.
Gods think in eternities.Shy thinks in operations.