So, unfortunately, I will be done with this project for the foreseeable future. As I did with my previous book, I will outline the direction I was going to give everyone some closure.

I think I realized that keeping up with the statistics of LitRPG was my least favorite part of writing the story, and took the fun out of it. For a future book, I might stick with fantasy or Gamelit at the most. I was thinking of writing a book about our current DnD campaign from the perspective of my character. We have only had a few sessions so far, but my friend (the DM) is doing a great job with a completely new world, all homebrewed by himself. I think if I begin to write that story, I will wait until it is completed before I post on RR. The stress of trying to keep a consistent release schedule when your book actually gets picked up was a little too much for me, I think.

Regardless, thanks for giving this story a shot - I think it was significantly better than my previous attempt. Here is the outline of what I had for the story.

If you have noticed so far, every god or goddess has human features. No elves, dwarfs, etc. The reason for this is these "gods" are actually the original transports from Earth, and are the only ones to retain their memories (besides Vince, obviously). The reason for the experiment on Vince was to try and make someone from Laria become strong enough to ascend to godhood, which I'll explain in a moment.

Pretty soon where the current story is at, Vince will run into a dungeon where he encounters and zombie-like monster labeled as "The Corrupted" with a whole lot of ???'s in the status window. Weird thing was, there was no loot drop when killing it. In passing conversation, he mentions this particular monster to Murdock, who pales. Apparently, many centuries ago, there was an uprising of "Corrupted" that were able to escape the dungeons. It was the only time a worldwide peace treaty was put into place, to come together to stop said Corruption. There is a lot of experience and money tied into the dungeons, for new transports all the way to savvy adventurers. No one wanted to see dungeons fall to these things.

Penelope (magic goddess) talks to him and explains what is going on. There was a fallen "god" (just a human transport) that created these corrupted. As the rules state by the true God of Laria (and other planets he experiments on), they cannot fight each other directly, and thus, use Laria and their playground for power. When Vince tries to understand why they all just don't get along, Penelope makes it clear this God would cause much more trouble than what they cause between themselves.

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We do a little bit of fast-forwarding in his training - he was put on a fast track to help with the spread of Corruption. Other countries are not buying the Academies cries for partnership - the corrupted was pushed back, and there was no evidence. So, wars continued, while Vince gets done with school.

In one particular fight with the Elves (they declared War, due to spreading "falsehoods" about the Corruption), he gets into a duel, 1v1 fight with a woman.

They call her the "Mage Slayer" and have been alive longer than most of the generals can remember. The fight is a draw, both hurt and injured, and unable to move on. She is clearly stronger, but Saphira helps make the fight a little more even, sacrificing herself in the process (she comes back, don't worry).

He meets the woman in a cage they keep prisoners and is shocked at what he finds. It is his wife, from Earth. She has no memories of Earth and has been around for several hundred years.

This is where Vince's Memories from the Past trait kicks in. He courts her, slowly. At one point, his emotions get so high and overwhelmed with the unfairness of it all, he touches her hand, and she shrieks. She has some mild memory of him from their time on Earth. Vince has the power to restore people's memories, although he is not very good at controlling it yet.

Eventually, she joins him, and he tests his ability to get her mind to unlock - its a long process, her memories slowly coming back over the next few months. He convinces her about the Corrupted, although he has not seen any since. This just makes the Academy more concerned - they are biding their time.

Slice of life stuff for a bit

Eventually, corrupted spill out. It's a big mess.

During one big fight, Vince runs into the God responsible for the corrupted. He gets his ass handed to him, obviously. Before he is killed, Penelope shows up. Talks about how he is breaking the rules, interfering directly. The fallen "god" says the rules do not apply to him anymore, he reached a deal with the God (always referring to this god as "The God"). He shoots a beam of light at Vince to finish him off, but Penelope stands in the way, the blast hitting her instead. She smiles - he broke the rule on engagement, which allowed her retaliation. So they fight. Penelope loses but is made the Corrupted God weak.

Vince and his wife take advantage and finish him off. His wife has powers the disable teleportation or fleeing, forcing the fight. Its close, but they make it.

That was the end of Book 1/Arc 1, all my other concepts were pretty rough from there on out so it wouldn't do justice to explain them.

Apologies for the summary of the ending, but I hope it gives you some closure, even though the details of it aren't impressive.

Stay safe everyone, if you want to stay and follow, I'll post whenever that next project comes to fruition.

- EyeEric