Leon's family has been diagnosed with a new type of incurable blood disease. It's an absolute death sentence and when it turns aggressive, you only have a few more years of painful life left to live. His mother has just begun the last years of the disease when a person supposedly comes back from death with supernatural abilities. He talks about a choice you get after death--get an extra chance to come back to life, or die.

Even with Leon's diminishing life span, he won't consider the option of going there, until he meets another survivor who had the same goal as him and succeeded.

Leon has a choice to make--die now for a chance to save his mother, or die in a few years, where the disease rapidly melts his muscles from his own body.

He enters a game-like world, a sort of limbo, where his ultimate goal is to climb the tower of Katastroph before his mother's time runs out. There are a few problems with this though. The tower is almost impossible to beat, if you die you won't revive, and only three people in over twenty years have actually made it back. Leon has two years to climb the tower, with the help of the few people willing to try, while Ai, the guide of the world, makes things harder for them.

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The story starts pretty dark but goes onto a lighter tone. Once the first "book" is done, it's not impossible that I'll remove the first few chapters and weave them in, but it depends on how the story develops.

Disclaimer: This story is an experimental project and I hope to get any and all feedback you can give me. This is also why there's a shit cover :) I hope you'll excuse my poor sense of design.

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CHAPTER RELEASES

My goal is to publish one chapter every weekend. How well I manage with completing that goal usually depends on my work schedule. If it's been a hectic week, it might be a little later, and if it's been a slow week (or I've procrastinated on another project) there might be two chapters released closer together.

I hope you enjoy the story! I really appreciate all comments and feedback, so if you have anything to say, feel free to voice it :)