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Engineer’s Odyssey

Name: Engineer’s Odyssey
Rating: 4.64 (228 reviews)
Author: 300YearOldMagician

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Vince is on a business trip when aliens announce that Earth is the location for the latest round of some crazy contest. The monsters that start appearing would be enough to deal with, but he’s more than a thousand miles from his wife and kids. He’s got to make it back home, and it’ll take all his martial arts and engineering skill to make it there.

A LitRPG adventure and standalone side story in the Apocalypse Parenting universe.

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