He died a hero on a quiet country road. He woke up as a weapon in a war between gods.
Jake Lancross spent twelve years as an Army sergeant. He came home without a scratch worth mentioning. Then one spring morning he stopped to help a stranger after a car wreck. A gunshot cracked, a pickup truck spun out of control, and everything went black.
When he opens his eyes, the moon overhead is too big and the air smells wrong. The forest around him is dead silent.
Jake has read enough manga to know how this goes. He holds out his hand and shouts, “Fireball!”
Nothing happens.
There’s no magic, no superpowers and no friendly elf to help him. What he does get is a pack of crystal-spined wolves charging out of the dark. All he has to fight them with is a stick and his training.
Welcome to Ert, a world of dragons, demons, kings and gods. Here magic runs on knowledge and willpower, and a man from Earth may know more than all of them.
Jake soon learns he didn’t get here by accident. A princess’s summoning ritual was sabotaged by an enemy nation, and it pulled two things into her world: Jake, and a demon. Part of that demon is now inside him.
Then there’s the forgotten ancestor who left him thirty-six journals full of lost spells. And the gods themselves are moving pieces in a game that has been running for two thousand years. Jake is starting to suspect he’s one of those pieces.
The magic of this world is starting to die. If nobody stops it, it will be gone for good. Somebody has to find out who’s behind it.
OTHERWORLDER is Book 1 of the Falling Darkness Saga. Fans of isekai, LitRPG and epic fantasy will love its gritty, grounded hero, who survives by what he knows instead of a magic power-up.
This is no fairy tale. It’s a fight for survival, and it’s only the beginning.
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