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The Vagabond

Name: The Vagabond
Rating: 4.55 (427 reviews)
Author: Brightland

Brightland

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Synopsis

A dark evil threatens the world that Kass recently found herself in, but she is no hero, just a girl that is trying to survive another hour. Join Kass on her journey through hostile lands and dark dungeons where she will come across all sorts of trouble as well as the occasional loot. If she’s lucky, maybe even epic or legendary! It doesn’t take long for Kass to realize her spot on the food chain with hungry monsters at every turn, but through thick and thin she begins to learn just what it takes to survive in this new world. She is but a lone wanderer. A Vagabond.

This story is written as a LitRpg. It contains class systems, skill trees, and of course, lots of loot. (Don’t be alarmed to not see any class systems in the first few chapters, they’ll be there soon enough)

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