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Edge Cases [STUBBED/COMPLETE/BONUSES]

Name: Edge Cases [STUBBED/COMPLETE/BONUSES]
Rating: 4.66 (1344 reviews)
Author: SilverLinings

SilverLinings

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Synopsis

This series has been stubbed. Thank you to everyone who made this possible–I may come back to work on this series someday, and I’d like to restore it to RR when the time comes. For now, though, this page will serve to contain bonus scenes/vignettes/FAQs.

Edge Cases can be read on Amazon or Audible! Here are the links:

Book 1, The Fabric of Reality: Amazon/Audible
Book 2, The Nature of Magic: Amazon/Audible
Book 3, The Meaning of Life: Amazon/Audible
Book 4, The Heart of Divinity: Amazon/Audible

Rare classes and powerful skills are helpful. Too bad the system doesn’t seem built to handle them. What even are all these errors?

Our team of outcasts and adventurers will have to rely on their trust – and the bane of all stories, healthy communication – just to survive, let alone understand what the system is doing. Because they’re quickly realizing that not all is as it seems, and it’s doing something to people, to monsters, and maybe even to the gods themselves.

And their goal isn’t just to survive; it’s to make things better. It’s a good thing they’re not doing it alone.

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Edge Cases is an attempt to take the LitRPG genre and the overpowered MCs trope and write a story where numbers aren’t everything. Sometimes it takes trust, support, and just a touch of being very, very clever.

Expect a mix of action, slice-of-life, friendship, and ominous worldbuilding.

Updates M-W-F at 6pm EST.

Cover art by Alovck of Artstation, and typesetting by jessessey right here on RoyalRoad.

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Discord: https://discord.gg/jF2XacAAQk

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Author :

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