Trace Veeran is no chosen hero—just a washed-out Army Ranger from Kentucky drowning in guilt, alcohol, and the ghosts of his past. He thought war had taken everything from him.

Then he wakes in Vaeltharion, a world ruled by dungeons, Dominion armies, and a system that measures survival in levels, not years.

Thrown into a land where monsters hunt the weak and humans aren’t much better, Trace finds no prophecy waiting for him—only trials designed to break stronger men. The system doesn’t care who he was. It only cares whether he learns, adapts, and kills.

With only a battered spear and instincts sharpened by trauma, Trace must claw his way through the system’s brutal lessons. Each dungeon forces him to confront the pieces of himself he tried to bury. Each level demands a price.

He wasn’t summoned to save this world.
He was dragged here to survive it.

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