A LitRPG Post Apocalyptic Novel.
This is my first novel submitted to for the public reading. I would appreciate any feedback that you can provide. It has no professional editing and I know that it will require it. What it does have is plot, character development and a fun action-packed story line with a significant amount of intrigue. Thanks if advance for any feedback you want to provide.
The novel is full novel length and will be published in its entirety over the next couple of weeks.
Synopsis
Adrian is on the last day of a work trip setting up a solar plant when somewhere on earth, a scientist creates a particle that catalyzes all the matter on earth to create new fundamental rules of physics. Technology as we know it will no longer work and the energy of the conversion has mutated earth animals and generated new monsters. This is an extinction level event for sentient life.
All is not lost as almost every intelligent race falls into the trap and over billions of years, millions of intelligence species have gone into the grinder. A tiny percentage survived and introduced tools to help future races avoid extinction. Because of them Adrian receives an interface to help him. It is a cheat to process the new reality, a cheat to give knowledge and the computing power to use the magic enabled by the new rules of physics.
He emerges in the world stuck thousands of miles from his family in a small country town. People around him die and he uses his new skill to grow stronger and make his way to a nearby town to meet up with friends.
The town is on tenterhooks. It is plagued by a giant Bird that if it spots you it will eat you. Dozens have already fallen and unless someone deals with the Bird the town will fall apart. Part of Adrian wants to flee immediately to find and protect his family. The decision is harder than it should be because the interface he received is different from what others got. They are all supposed to be non-sentient. Adrian is pretty sure that his one is sentient and when he asks about the Bird it gives a plan. The plan may give him an edge, or it may just turn him into Bird food. Something has to be done about the Bird and as scary as it is, he cannot just abandon the town to its fate.