Obelisk: System Integration: A LitRPG Adventure

Obelisk: System Integration, Book 1

Ominous obelisks land on Earth with a single message: Join the games to give humanity a fighting chance to survive... Or roll over and die.

Too bad for them, Warren isn't the rolling-over type.

Cancer may be kicking Warren's a$$, but he's not about to let aliens destroy his home and everything he loves (which is mostly just his dog, Buck). Besides, what does he have to lose?

Better to die with sword in hand, bleeding out from a head wound than in some hospital bed...

Once the games begin, Warren can't help but think, "Maybe hospital beds aren't so bad after all."

Nah, F that! If you're going to go out, might as well go out having an impaled taraza (whatever the hell that is) at the end of your blade.

Obelisk: System Integration is an action-packed, epic, LitRPG apocalypse series. Our heroes face off an alien invasion, academy politics, PvP, and tower ascension—all to save Earth from being destroyed. Perfect for fans of Defiance of the Fall, Life in Exile, and Apocalypse: Generic System.

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Ended up liking it overall

First 1/4 was great - then they bring in the new character that ruins the story - for me anyway - then when there is about 1/4 left in the book the remove the stick from the characters ... and the book gets really really good. So I bought the second book which is turning out to not be so good 20 plus chapters in. Sure, hope it turns around. And of course, Pavi Proczko is great as always.

Looking forward to more!

Really enjoyed this and though I finished two days ago I’m still thinking about. Narrated well. Good character building. Plenty was accomplished to finish an arc but lots of setup for more.

Standard team litrpg.

The story is standard theres just all the usual. A pretty standard book with multi character perspective. Never really felt like i foud out more of the team.

MC is barely bearable

I was intrigued by the concept, but the MC is almost too annoying. There's good parts but a lot of bad parts. Pervy teenage attitude and mindset. Its cringe at best and eye rolling almost the whole time. The whole cancer thing is just confusing. The system can regrow limbs, heal from literal edge of death heal wounds, and yet can't cure simple cancer? And not only it can't cure cancer (of which the whole empire has already eradicated cancer as a problem), but the ingredients to make some rare legendary style potion require traipsing around the universe looking for super rare ingredients?

Its bearable enough I will be getting the next book but if it doesn't get better in regards to the cancer and MC attitude (which i suspect it wont) it'll be going into the do not finish pile

Good potential but the cancer aspect is painfully bad

I like this take on a system apocalypse with only a small group fighting for earth. Also was a fan the intrigue of the game being rigged against humanity. Genuinely great setup and world potential.

Unfortunately, the MCs struggle with cancer in the context of this story is so stupid as to almost ruin the whole thing. Choosing this as the main motivation for and limitation on he MC is absolutely baffling. The author created a world where healing magic can cure any wound, regrow limbs, and characters can gain enough resilience to shug off bullets. But somehow accelerated cell division is incurable without a near mythical potion made from ingredients sources from across the universe??? Ugh.

I'd actually be intested in reading a story of person with a terminal illness being swept up in a system apocalypse in which the calus system doesnt allow his disease to be cured (say it recognizes the disease as in inate part of him at intrgration and transorms it into a permanant curese, and healing can't cure curses). This however feels so contrived, like the author needed a way to nerf their MC so just plucked an issue out of a hat and went with it.

I'll get the next one, but if hes still having random "cancer episodes" by the end of it, I'll be done there.