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The Truck Effect

Name: The Truck Effect
Rating: 4.7 (236 reviews)
Author: Skylark (Dion Sky)

Skylark (Dion Sky)

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Synopsis

To save a universe, a reincarnator must die. This keeps happening and has never made any sense.

Lamutri is a Chapel assassin of the multiversal House of Fate, and wants to know why. For dispatching reincarnators, he is promised ascent. But his reality-altering Defects keep him strangled at the bottom.

When straightforward missions start going horribly, exponentially wrong, the Chapel holds Lamutri to blame. There’s a simple solution: murder the problem. But with the fate of universes in his hands, he realises someone has been keeping very significant secrets. For a very long time.

What to expect:

– Isekai tropes in a rational framework
– Fast-paced serious plot focus
– Questions raised and answered
– Slow-paced, non-standard progression (think integral to the plot, with various consequences)
– The multiverse!

Updates:

Story will update daily for the first couple of weeks, and will slow to three times per week afterwards. Book One is complete and guaranteed to finish.

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