Path of the Forerunner

The System Arrives, Book 1

De: Terry Carter

Narrado por: Hannah Trusty, Brad Derry

One Tuesday changes everything for Robert Williams. A cosmic entity known as the System arrives, selecting him—a suburban father and engineer—as Earth's sole representative for integration. He has six months to say goodbye to his family before being exiled to another universe for over 400 years. Guided by an AI companion and gifted with powerful starting perks, Robert must navigate a new reality defined by levels, skills, magic, and dungeon crawls. From learning basic spells to crafting powerful artifacts and facing down monstrous foes, Robert races against time, not just for his own survival, but to prepare his loved ones and maybe even his planet for a future transformed by the System.

©2025 Terry Carter (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

amazing

Am a big Litrpg fan and this one hit all the notes.Just amazing can't wait for number two

Worth the credit

Takes a unique approach to being sent to another world didn’t think I’d like it but grew on me. Writer did great job

Needs work, should rewrite.

Meticulously and strategically.. so overused. Guy needs to study some real litrpg. No failures? Always perfect? Can’t create a fight scene to save their lives. Feels like a middle schooler wrote it. Feels like a first draft. You should really have some litrpg readers and writers proof read your stuff. But I like the premise and story. But you really need some work. Your no Kong or Wong.

loved it!!!

Great boo. the MC is just a normal guy who gets thrust into a world he didnt want but makes the most of it.

Reaction to planned system integration

Pretty down to earth start to a planned system integration. The family reaction feel somewhat real
Looking forward to book 2

Alright but also annoying

Some tiny spoilers ahead.
Book is alright with nothing erotic/creepy/triggering. Nothing stated below is truly DNF worthy since it isn't deus ex "MC suddenly makes an out of character move to drive the plot forward".
The book suffers from an author that has not read/listened to other litrpg books. Huge stat sheet readings that repeat the entire status including skill/spell descriptions after the MC adds 1 stat point to an attribute or adds a new spell. This would be fine in the beginning but even the MC comments about the huge stat sheet yet does not attempt to shorten it or to only display changes etcetera hence the comment about the author not having read other litrpg books. MC also makes some IQ-seagull level choices since his main concern is protecting his family yet he does not choose a profession that explicitly states creating automatons among other things despite having an ultra op class about creating things. He also decides that it's fine to inform the government about his powers and the system since he himself should be safe from them yet never even considers that they may just take his family hostage and since he would never risk their lives he'd be obliged to obey.

Looking forward to book 2

This is not an action story, it is a story about a family and stepping into a new world. Slower than most litrpgs, but I enjoyed it and am looking forward to book 2.

The fact that the main character is a family man

I really enjoyed the story in this. I loved the fact that the main character isn’t some young kid but rather an older adult (vs someone who more or less just stepped into adulthood). I also really like how when he takes in the girl around the same age as his daughter as a student he actually takes into consideration what she wants.

Too much time going over the stats again and again. Turned me off completely.

see my comment in the title section. Author should edit out most of the status checks .

Long prologue

This entire book covers what most books in this genre cover in their prologue. A bit disappointed.