Dark Paladin

Surviving in a game world sounds manageable — until it is the real world, enemies want you dead, and your own class has written you off. Welcome to the Game. It will prove you wrong.

The Academy showed Paladin Yaropolk the truth of his world: pragmatism and personal gain above all. Restart has been triggered, and it has made players more desperate and ruthless than ever — everyone plays only for themselves. Yaropolk faces a fundamental choice: become like everyone else, or keep his humanity and be the odd one out. In this world, there is only one rule: kill or be killed.

The Game is in turmoil. All resources are being channeled into preparing for Restart — only twenty percent of players will survive into the next era. Murders are commonplace, betrayal is routine, and the Game's influence has spread to the farthest corners of the universe. Yaropolk must make a fateful choice: he is the Guide, the one who will launch the Restart. Will he follow his class's ideals to the end, or abandon them?