A chance to be a hero or a villain. A chance to have real power and agency. Living a LitRPG. After dying Gloe took a look around the Bazaar of the Gods and said 'nah.' He reasoned that if you couldn't figure out what they were selling you, then you were the product.

So instead he snuck around, read the Operator's Manual and Isekai'd himself. Not with amazing powers, or born to a noble family like everyone else. He wanted to live a quiet life in the background, just trying to help ordinary folk.

But the other world turned out to be far more violent and merciless than he'd hoped. Finally he was forced to accept he needed to find a new path if he wanted to survive and make a difference. Learn to fight without any direct combat powers. Discover the nature of this world and its magic without a UI, levels, cheats or guidance. Determine what was moral and right in the face of the heavy-handed order of the gods and nobles.

Fortunately, the power he did have would help him survive. Prisons, the Deep Wyld, torture chambers and battlefields alike. Bearing witness to some of the worst people had to offer. Until his life boiled down to four questions. What should be done? What could be done? What would he do?

And if he survived and grew in power until he could accomplish everything he sought, what would he become?