Survival Of The Wealthiest: A Wealth-Building & Survival LitRPG Adventure Novel

by Jin Holland

The future was cruel.

When the Merchants descended, the world became a marketplace where food, water—even the right to breathe—came with a price tag. Those who couldn’t pay were erased.

Alex lived through that nightmare once. He starved, fought, and scraped for every coin… until the world finally killed him.

Now he’s back.

Armed with fragments of future knowledge, Alex refuses to die a second time. If survival demands money, then he’ll chase wealth with the fury of a man who knows exactly what happens to the poor.

But making money isn't that easy—not when he only remembers pieces. Half-remembered trends. Faded moments. A handful of turning points he prays he hasn’t mixed up. One wrong move, and he could change the future into something even worse.

Alex doesn’t want luxury. He wants to live.
And if hoarding money is the only way to do it, then Alex will shovel in every coin he can—piling it high like a barricade between him and death—before the world swallows him a second time.

Survive. Earn. Ascend.
Because in the Merchant Age… being broke is a death sentence.

378 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 11, 2025

Reviews

[GrumpyOldMan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I made it 100 pages through this book before the overarching plot made it unbearable.

The MC is a loser that works delivering food and other random jobs to try and get out of self (and girlfriend) inflicted debt. He's just apparently robbed the wealthiest man alive of some artifact, which he swallows to make it harder for that man's henchmen to get back. Instead, he flashes back 2 years in time before "The Merchants" show up and make money even more everything than it is today. Now he's on a mad dash to make as much money as he can before The Merchants show up eventually.

This includes taking out a loan from a loanshark where his body's organs are the collateral. Making forays into "bitcoin" with some new fangled one that goes through the roof before it collapses, which is why he needs 200K from a loan shark. Then him staring at his phone for days as the money slowly goes up before he gets out just in time. And just as I finished, he's paid off his debts but now is looking to find this financial wonder-woman to follow, since he knows nothing of finance or making money.

Honestly, this book is boring as can be. 100+ pages of pretty much nothing happening except for his schemes.

[Dantegideon · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was like watching someone try to hype up a spreadsheet. Numbers move around. Will this set of numbers get bigger? Obviously, yes, it wouldn't be much of a story if he lost it all straight away. But at the end of the day he's just moving numbers around and it isn't very interesting to read about, in my opinion. Maybe it's your cup of tea but it's not mine.

[Mick Simpson · Rating 1 out of 5]

awful - just unreadable at points

Just finance jargon and then for some reason the writer has to put asterixes into swear words. Glad this is kindle unlimited because if
Have hated to have paid for it,

[Bobby Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable!

It's dark and depressing- at first. But it does get better. The MC isn't very emotionally deep but coming from the background he did, that's not surprising. I'm hoping that as the story goes on, his character, emotionally, gets better.

I think the storyline is very interesting and a great premise.

[Bert Babb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting analysis of money

A quite interesting story of how a regressoor goes from rags to riches as the apoclypse approaches. He meets some interesting people on his journey as well as some former associates who love to use him to feel better about themselves.

[Daybreak · Rating 1 out of 5]

absolutely boring, mc is a poor loser then turns into a rich loser. the entire thing is just about number crunch no action no editing.

[Jeriah]

Really enjoyed it. Finished it in about 3 hours and I’m hyped for book 2.