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The System Breaker #1
System Error: A LitRPG Apocalypse Adventure
Marlow deleted bugs for a living. Now he is one.
The System that rebooted the world has scheduled his deletion, and it has never once missed an appointment.
On Integration Day, the world crashes and comes back as a game. Levels. Loot. Shining new Classes for every survivor in the city. Every survivor but one. Marlow, a burnt-out quality tester who spent ten years hunting the cracks in broken software, walks out the far side flagged as a corrupted entry. Not a hero. Not a villain. An error queued for cleanup.
He should be gone by morning. Instead he finds the one thing his dead-end job left him. He can see the seams of this half-built world, and he can reach into them. He can revert a broken door, cheat a locked gate, and bend rules everyone else has to obey. But he is only borrowing. Every exploit costs him a piece of himself, and worse, the corruption bleeds into the people standing closest to him. The longer they stay, the faster they fray.
To buy them one more day, a man with no Class and no future has to do the only thing he was ever good at. Find the flaw in a system built to erase him, and turn his own death sentence into a problem too large to close.
Read this if you love grounded LitRPG with real stakes, a hard magic system with rules that bite, a found family worth bleeding for, and an underdog who fixes the unfixable one impossible exploit at a time.
Book One of the System Breaker series. Fair warning. It ends on a question you will not want to wait to answer.
The System that rebooted the world has scheduled his deletion, and it has never once missed an appointment.
On Integration Day, the world crashes and comes back as a game. Levels. Loot. Shining new Classes for every survivor in the city. Every survivor but one. Marlow, a burnt-out quality tester who spent ten years hunting the cracks in broken software, walks out the far side flagged as a corrupted entry. Not a hero. Not a villain. An error queued for cleanup.
He should be gone by morning. Instead he finds the one thing his dead-end job left him. He can see the seams of this half-built world, and he can reach into them. He can revert a broken door, cheat a locked gate, and bend rules everyone else has to obey. But he is only borrowing. Every exploit costs him a piece of himself, and worse, the corruption bleeds into the people standing closest to him. The longer they stay, the faster they fray.
To buy them one more day, a man with no Class and no future has to do the only thing he was ever good at. Find the flaw in a system built to erase him, and turn his own death sentence into a problem too large to close.
Read this if you love grounded LitRPG with real stakes, a hard magic system with rules that bite, a found family worth bleeding for, and an underdog who fixes the unfixable one impossible exploit at a time.
Book One of the System Breaker series. Fair warning. It ends on a question you will not want to wait to answer.
276 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 27, 2025
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