Tower of Jack

Jack Atlas, self-proclaimed 'World's Best Assassin', had a simple plan: retire in style and marry the girl of his dreams. Then he gets placed in The Tower — a divine deathtrap where gods pit their creations against each other. Jack soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Black Centipede, a notorious assassin cult whose recruitment policy is join or they'll murder everyone he loves. Instead of sipping Mai Tais on a beach, he's slurping health potions because he got stabbed by a goblin. Sent to 'dungeon timeout' for bad behavior, Jack is just crazy enough to not only survive, but win.

Stuck in a dungeon meticulously designed to ruin their lives, Jack and his best friend Hannah are outnumbered and outmatched. Rather than just fight for his life, Jack decides to charm the dungeon's nastiest creatures, turning enemies into reluctant allies. Meanwhile, a civil war rages outside: on one side, his ex-mentor Rodeo; on the other, his ex, Sarah, leading the good guys with the firepower of a dragon. Jack's plan is simple — escape, figure out whether Sarah wants to kill him or kiss him, and land a punch on Rodeo's face. All before happy hour.

Jack barely survived the first floor, and now the Tower has booted him to the second. With his mana on the fritz, he's given another supposedly impossible task: conquer Broken Moon City and claim it as his own — a sprawling undead metropolis where no one person has ever managed to carve out a throne. Teaming up with a goblin alchemist, Hannah, and a handful of sketchy oddballs, the malfunctioning assassin sets out to either capture the city or burn it to the ground.

Jack finally has something resembling a crew capable of climbing the Tower — but first, a few minor chores: conquer a city no one has ever conquered, put down an immortal lich who's being suspiciously helpful, and hold onto power while every faction in the Tower starts a war in Broken Moon City. If he manages all that, he gets to join a tournament on Floor Three — run by a clinically insane gamemaster who's spent an alarming amount of time plotting creative ways to ruin his life specifically, and filled with an absurd number of cheating competitors.