Alchemist’s Retribution

Towerbound, Book 1 (LITRPG + REGRESSOR + OPMC)

By: Samson Chui

Narrated by: 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!!

MC snd Narrator issues

-Narrator speaks incredibly slowly. At 1.5 speed, it sounds like a slightly fast read. So is his incompetence as a cleric. On top of which, there is a try hard effort to make it funny that doesn’t work. It’s like that unfunny uncle trying really hard to be funny and then trying to get you to acknowledge they’re funny.

- 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.

-He has no attachment to being a cleric so why not pick mage which uses intelligence as its main attribute? Never explains why he even wants to be a cleric instead.

- 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.
-Gives up his edge for seemingly no reason by teaching anyone anything.



- A lot of discussion about how specialized elite classes could be but none are potion focused?

it's fantastic

this book is so good. I originally read it on my Kindle and when I saw that it was on audible I purchased it again just so that I could listen to it at work. the author has a great world. great characters that feel alive and have problems and deal with them as best they can. main character has his flaws but not any more than a normal person does. but he's also not a perfect Superman of Ripley muscles and incredible intellect. he's a coward and he knows what he's good at and he's able to use that to not bring him just himself out of poverty but all his friends around him. I tell you more about the plot but I feel I give away most of the book if I did. looking forward to the next one coming out on audible. I apologize for any spelling errors. I'm writing this review with voice to text