The Upgrade Gamer

Traise Axton spent most of his life behind a screen. Games made sense to him. Learn the mechanics. Exploit the system. Grind long enough, and eventually your effort pays off. Reality never worked that way. After dying in an accident, Traise awakens inside a brutal world ruled by beings known as Exalts, where strength is gained through evolution, hierarchy, and survival. But something goes wrong during his reincarnation. Instead of evolving systems like everyone else… Traise receives a different kind of system. The Upgrade System. While others are bound to rigid paths of growth, Traise gains levels, stats, quests, skills, loot, and the ability to grow stronger through combat itself. Every hunt becomes progression. Every near-death encounter becomes another step forward. But the Upgrade System was never meant to exist in this world. The deeper Traise ventures into the forest, the more impossible his existence becomes. Ancient creatures begin noticing him. Powerful beings start questioning him. And somewhere beyond the endless wilderness, something is already waiting for him to grow stronger. Because in a world where everyone evolves—Traise levels. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Upgrade Gamer — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠