Black Centurion: A LitRPG Novel

A new novel from the bestselling Russian LitRPG author of Small Unit Tactics!

Sometimes, life can be cruel and unpredictable, snatching away all you hold dear in an instant. When you’re betrayed by the one person you love most, the actions you commit in the heat of the moment may derail the rest of your life. You can’t undo what’s been done, and now an incorruptible AI keeps thwarting your attempts to find the truth. Will you be able to persuade it?

This is the opportunity given by an RPG game that works like an international arbitration court - an impartial and error-free machine. For a top-ranked player who has already made millions in the game, this task sounds like child’s play. But things aren’t as simple as they seem, and this game is totally unlike any other!

Our hero will have to save a life, survive, and - most importantly - prove to an AI that he’s a good guy and deserves to have the one thing he wants more than anything else on Earth!

A strange, foreign world. Mysterious judges with capricious rules. Thousands of gamers find themselves split into factions and pitted against each other at the whim of an unknown higher power, with no idea how they got there or why they were chosen. Dying in this world hurts, but it's not the end: dead players always respawn to fight again.

Echo, with his extensive knowledge of fighting, armor, and weapons, has all the makings of a great leader. The ragtag recruits fighting for him under the less-than-threatening name "Society of Pinprick Enthusiasts" become the bane of the opposing factions, sowing terror in their wake. But this game won't be won in straightforward skirmishes. The squad will have to forge pacts with their own faction, the judges, and even their enemies. Each day brings new twists, new rules, and new ways to play, and a step that seemed to be in the right direction might suddenly become a fatal mistake.

Brute force and bravado won't be enough for Echo to carve his way to the top and stay there. He will have to lead his squad through mistakes, good fortune, victory, and defeat in his quest to secure his position.