SYSTEM COLLAPSE, THE

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

THE SYSTEM GAVE EVERYONE A CLASS AT 9:41 ON A TUESDAY NIGHT.

IT GAVE DARA AN ERROR MESSAGE.

Eight billion people are registered as citizens of a Tier-0 Starter Realm.

Projected survival: 11.2%. The countdown runs nine minutes and fifty-nine

seconds, and then the warehouse where Dara Okonkwo has spent eleven years

picking orders becomes a nine-story dungeon.

Everyone else gets a fair class — Fighter, Mage, Healer — and a tidy little

stat sheet with a cap on it. Dara gets ERROR 0x00CLASS, and then a class that

does not exist: UNREGISTERED SURVIVOR. No cap on his stats. One hidden

passive that lets him eat the System's own glitches and turn them into points.

Now every rounding error in the cosmic machinery has his name on it, and every

point he spends makes the System try harder to delete him.

He doesn't want to be a hero. He wants to walk nineteen blocks. His

fourteen-year-old sister is still alive across a city that has folded itself

into separate little boxed-off zones, and the only way out of his is to kill

the boss that is already wearing his old foreman's name badge.

EMPLOYEE ID 4471 DETECTED. WELCOME BACK, DARA.

What follows is not a simple power fantasy. It is a paperwork war: a queue

that processes people forty an hour, a healer who cannot mend a broken leg, a

shopping centre where dying is free and leaving is impossible, and a System

that does not want to kill Dara so much as file him.

Because in this apocalypse, the strongest weapon on Earth is a form nobody

can refuse.

One of SYSTEM COLLAPSE, a ten-volume LitRPG series. For readers of stat

sheets, uncapped progression, broken skills, dungeon survival, and underdogs

who win by reading the fine print.

Contains: LitRPG progression · stat boxes · system exploits · dungeon crawls

· a boss fight in chapter nine · and one very angry picker.