Alchemist’s Retribution

Towerbound, Book 1 (LITRPG + REGRESSOR + OPMC)

De: Samson Chui

Narrado por: Jonathan Mulder

Over 100,000 reads on Royal Road.

4.7 on Amazon from 99+ reviews.

#1 New Release in Time Travel Fiction.

Top 10 in Time Travel Sci-Fi.

Towerbound is the Progression Fantasy LitRPG readers can’t stop binging.

They left him for dead.

Now he’s back—and he’s bringing the Tower down.

Ren Varrow was never the hero type. A quiet alchemist with a talent for potions, he kept his head low while others chased glory. But when a top guild lured him into a lethal dungeon and stabbed him in the back, his story should’ve ended.

Instead, it rewound.

Thrown back to Day One—before the Tower rose, before the betrayals—Ren knows what’s coming: secret quests, hidden mechanics, and a ticking clock that ends with Earth’s destruction.

Armed with future knowledge and forgotten skills, he’s ready to rewrite everything.

From building a guild out of nobodies…

To crafting mythic-grade potions…

To surviving a hundred deadly floors and the guilds hunting him…

Ren is done playing nice.

The Tower’s coming—and this time, he climbs first.

Expect:

• Time-travel knowledge

• Cowardly but overpowered MC

• Alchemy, dungeoncraft, and guild wars

• Swearing and strategy

• Dystopian Earth meets leveling system

Don’t expect:

• Harem

• Romance arcs

Reader Reactions:

“All the good vibes from my days playing World of Warcraft. Fun. Funny. Satisfying.”

“Finally a redo story that keeps it simple, believable. Repeatable.”

“This story delivers what it promises.”

– Royal Road reviewers

©2024 Samson chui (P)2025 Samson chui

Rats, what’s a story!

No one likes spending their hard earned cheddar on bad tales. Let’s just say that this book has it all chapter development, good story, and a solid return on your cheddar. Make sure to give it a shot after all street rats are king. Also cannot wait for the next book highly recommend giving the books a read if you can’t wait for the next audible!!

MC snd Narrator issues

-Narrator speaks incredibly slowly. At 1.5 speed, it sounds like a slightly fast read.

- MC is a coward and it’s overemphasized.

- Specialization and crafting(this even more so since MC pretty much focuses on it) are clearly intricate and important but not very fleshed out by the story or MC.

- I can appreciate that it’s an unusual take on the regressor litrpg, but the MC is locked into not growing in what is an important way because he has to be a coward. His foreknowledge should emphasize how much of an opportunity it is to not go through the pain and death in real life but he ignores it.
- The wholes monster in real life bit pretty much ignores relatively fast. His choices and thoughts not lining up with getting ready for them.
- Gives out his address for the dumbest reason( they’ll find out if they try hard enough anyway).

- The pre-regression story doesn’t actually show him living the life the story is centered on AT ALL. It also doesn’t explain a lot of things, like the connection between characters and real life. The importance of which, cannot be overstated.

Repetitive...we get it, move on

Seriously, move on. The plot is good, but the execution is poor. Some scenes get repetitive and stuck in a loop of introspection and explanations. I had to fast-forward to get the story in a number of chapters. It needs editing.