Hi everyone,

I've just released my second novel here on Royal Road! Four chapters are out so far, and it'll post daily for the first month — after that, it'll alternate with IC (don't worry, IC's release schedule won't be affected). I'd really appreciate it if you could check it out and let me know what you think. Any follows, ratings, or reviews in these early stages would mean a lot.

This novel is lighter than IC, with heavier LitRPG mechanics, and focuses on the story of its MC: Hope — meaning about 95% of it is told from his third-person POV. See the summary below for reference.

Check it out here:

No Place for Hope | Royal Road

Let's go, lads. We got places to blast.

—Hope

In a cosmos splintered into human subspecies, forged by extreme worlds and bound by brutal caste- and race-purity hierarchies, an RPG-based System reigns supreme.

System Law No. 2: No logic-bound, self-sustaining construct—whether technological or magical—shall function without the direct, ongoing involvement of a living, magical entity. Any attempt to create automation or self-operating systems simply will not work.

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Automation is dead. Magic requires will. Every spell, every machine, every tool must be guided by a living hand. No circuits. No self-fueling portals. No enchanted machinery left to run alone.

Humanity spread across the void—only to be bound in feudal chains, forged of blood and steel.

Follow the story of Hope—a street-raised orphan from a dead-rock wasteland—suddenly hurled into an Earth-like planet full of vivid colors and strange, bizarre things like grass, clouds, and even trees!

He'll heed the constant ping of system messages, hunt and be hunted, and level up his skills in a place built to test him.

"Hope ain't a feeling—it's me."

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What to expect:

Space pirates!

A likeable MC who will shatter fate

Heavy LitRPG mechanics

Feudal-style space opera with strong fantasy elements

Solid, consistent progression system

Primarily single POV (with scattered interludes)

Realistic, occasional romance (no harem!)

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