Walking Dead: The Ground Levels Up

He will never be stronger than the man beside him. One bite kills him like anyone else. The ground he stands on is what levels up. The Holdfast is place-bound. Sixteen named instruments turn a plot of earth into something the dead cannot cross, and four standings measure whether the people inside actually trust one another. None of it travels. Outside the perimeter he is a soft man with a knife. He cannot hold what he cannot crew, and the manning cost never bends. Marcus Reyes woke mid-collapse with the overlay already running. Two clocks tick under everything: a herd moving somewhere out there, and whether the stores will carry his people to the next harvest. Six frightened strangers at a dead gas station off Route 18 are the whole population — and the system’s first question is how many of the six intend to stay. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Walking Dead: The Ground Levels Up — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠