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

Scrap Rats

Excellent regressor series. Ren, the MC, carries back his memories and personality quirks and remains a believable character. He's not all powerful or all knowing, but remembers the major events that affected his first life. I highly recommend the series.

Jonathan Mulder turns in an excellent performance as the narrator.

Great Book!

I thought the book was well written and really enjoyed it. The narrator did a great job and loved the way he switched up the characters and energy of the script. I am really looking forward to the next book and ready to see how the narrator tells the story and makes the characters come to life again. Great book and I have already shared it and recommend it to several people.

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!!

Great potential but poor execution.

I'm honestly sorta upset i spent money on this. the book isn't terrible, i sat through most of it but it definitely falls short in several ways. it feels like the author has never played an mmo the class system is basic and uninspired i get that this is a crafting focused novel but the fact that the mc chooses to be a cleric chef among them feels like a silly decision especially in the later part of the book where he starts to use his alchemy for combat. it makes you wonder why there isn't a combat alchemist class or something like it.

speaking of crafting the main focus of the book the story fails to go into too much detail about it. much of it's mentions are brief despite how much of the story is focused around it. random generic potion names no real chemistry or experimentation with plants or description of the finer details of potion crafting. if what you're looking for is a campy story about crafting this isn't the book for you. the book has no real specialization, it shys away from every category so much that it becomes a bland mesh of them all. he regresses through time but barely uses any of the knowledge from his past experiences. he does one single hisden quest and kills one mini boas then barely fights after. he doesn't really craft high level potions. for a story so completely not focused on combat the game world is completely geared around it. crafting classes dont net exp outside of class levels so besides making money they're kinda pointless. beyond that the logic is really hard to get behind. alchemists are viewed as force multipliers yet every time you get people dismissing or trying to bully him while he's supposedly the best alchemist in the game. hell even the hook at the start of the book makes no sense. it goes on and on about how he's this genius at alchemy who's keeping his guild afloat and then they stab him in the back so they can distribute his levels? yet it's obvious that crafting levels aren't all that important and the crafting system is based on knowledge and accomplishments so doing that wouldn't really have the same effect as keeping him on since he's this super genius alchemist. it's so silly.

great story

i really. like the story and it is nice that ist is on audible now too. I think the narrator is still getting their feet under them but it is still worth a credit for the story. If the pace is too slow you can always speed up the play speed