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(Book 3 Complete!) Runeblade: A Delving & Skill Merging LitRPG

Name: (Book 3 Complete!) Runeblade: A Delving & Skill Merging LitRPG
Rating: 4.65 (3508 reviews)
Author: Bacon Macleod

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Kaius just wanted to unlock his class – instead, he restarted the apocalypse.

After years of training, Kaius has barely acquired the first two of his family’s legacy skills. Powerful and vanishingly rare, the method of creating them is a secret people would kill for.

Now they might be the only thing that keeps him alive.

Narrowly surviving a bandit ambush, he gets trapped in the Great Depths- a world spanning dungeon. To escape, he will have to slay one of the Guardians that defend the exits; a feat no one without a class has survived. Ever.

If that wasn’t bad enough, if he succeeds he will reignite a forgotten trial that nearly ended civilization.

Posting Schedule: 1/day 9:30 am NZT (2:30 pm PST, subject to daylight savings kerfuffles)

-My love letter to classic litrpg adventures. The kind with long arcs, gratuitous fights, fast paced progression, and a focus on worldbuilding.

-Runic-Tattoo Wizard/Spellblade in a world of sorcerers

-Exceptional MC, with some initial Slow Burn elements

-Large scope, inspired by epics such as Azarinth Healer, BTDEM, PH, and more.

-Third Person POV, with a 99% MC focus

-Numbers go brrrr

-Attack Badger (Friendly?)

-Battle maniac MC who is not a murderhobo

-No harem, romance, or VR

Hi everyone! After being a RR reader for many, many years, I have decided to throw my hat in the ring. This isn’t the first litRPG i’ve ever written, but it is the first I’ve decided to post. I hope you enjoy and leave plenty of comments and feedback 🙂

Patreon is 50 chapters ahead.
Writathon winner – Nov 2024

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When a pilot with no name breaks through a rift to a dying world, he and his experimental fighter-plane become the only things in the way of a horrific army of monsters that is marching to burn down the mystical world tree and kill its keeper as the final symbol of their grim victory.

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New chapters every day until I catch up to backlog, then there will be 3 a week.

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Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 is now on Amazon!
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Book 2 is also now available!
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Royal Road and Patreon is where to get the newest chapters and releases.

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The first several chapters of DCC are now off of Royal Road because the book is on Amazon. I want to thank all of you for 9 months of amazing support. This is and Patreon will always be the place for the newest chapters and content, but to comply with Amazon's Kindle Unlimited policy, I can't have more than 10% of the story up here.

This is a work in progress. Major editing will be done after the book is complete, so there will be egregious typos and parts that make no sense whatsoever. Please, please feel free to point any and all of these things out. Chapters WILL get edited, and that editing might break earlier chapters. I will attempt to keep readers apprised of all changes. Updates one-two days a week.

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