Trial by Fire is the sequel to Dragon Seed, the first book in the Archemi Online LitRPG/Gamelit series. It is largely standalone, but I highly recommend reading Dragon Seed first!
The first 5 chapters of Dragon Seed are available to read. Click the spoiler below for the TL;DR version:
DRAGON SEED SPOILERS Hector becomes a Dark Lancer - an FF-style Lancer with debuff and evasion/stealth abilities - with a major world quest. He discovers all the dragons at dragon knight school are slaves, gets given an egg, and escapes with his baby queen dragon, Karalti. Man and hatchling are now fugitives. Yes, he bangs Rutha. No, they don't stay together - more a friends with benefits thing rather than a romance.
This story will be updating twice a week to start with, moving to daily updates in May.
The full book will be released on the 27th May 2018.
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One man. One game. One adorable baby dragon.
Two weeks ago, Hector Park cheated death by uploading his mind to the ultra-immersive fantasy RPG game, Archemi. After exposing the rotten heart of an order of dragon knights, he's now on the run with a young queen dragon who could one day become the most powerful mount in the game.
To get strong enough to face their enemies, they need a quest – a big one. Fortunately, trouble has a way of finding Hector, and it does – in the form of a series of brutally murdered priests, a king in desperate need of a hero, and a beautiful, fiery berserker. The risk? Huge. The payoff? More gold than a dragon's hoard.
There's only one problem - Archemi is haunted by the ghost of a mad developer bent on making the game his personal playground. And now that the world outside has vanished in a storm of nuclear fire, there's no one left to stop him. Or at least, that's what he thinks. Because Hector isn't the kind of man to take this shit lying down, and neither is his dragon.
You can pre-order the complete version of Trial by Fire here: Trial by Fire on Amazon
Dragon Seed Blurb What would you give to be a dragon rider? Before being conscripted to fight in the Total War, Private Hector Park had a shattered family, a collection of old videogames, and a promising career as a motorcycle stuntman. Now, he is dying from a virus threatening humankind with extinction. He has three days to live.When Hector's brother contacts him after years of hostile silence, Hector goes to try and make peace. But his brother has an offer even more unbelievable than reconciliation: the chance to cheat death by joining him in Archemi, a full-immersion fantasy VR-RPG videogame. Determined to forge a life worth living, Hector undergoes the experimental upload process and chooses the difficult path of the Dragon Knight. To achieve his dream, he must prove himself worthy of imprinting a dragon, a being with whom he will share a telepathic bond more intimate than any human relationship.But at what cost? This book is live on Amazon: click here to go to Amazon (All Stores)