The Alpha Protocol: A Sci-Fi LitRPG Adventure

Symphony, Book 1

By: J. D. Mullenary Sr.

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Finding himself suddenly teleported to a new dimension, a former English teacher becomes the god of a world of his own making, in this portal fantasy.

Fresh off a break-up and now unemployed, veteran and former high school English teacher Walker Reed is ready to succumb to a grim and hopeless depression. But when an enigmatic stranger stops him in the street, he's suddenly hurled into another dimension.

There, Walker gets to build his own world from scratch following the Alpha Protocol, which invites special individuals from across the universe to become "Creators"—generating everything from their own land masses and celestial bodies to a comprehensive, recorded religion.

With the help of his robotic assistant, Virgil—who happens to be a four-foot-tall squirrel—Walker sets about building out his geography, evolutionary systems, and creatures. But it's not like playing in a sandbox, and he quickly realizes his creations can have world-ending consequences. Not to mention the creators are regularly pitted against one another in the Creator Wars . . .

As if all that weren't bad enough, if Walker can't complete the Alpha Protocol, he'll be sent back to his previous reality where new, dark roads await. As he unlocks new systems and paths, can he balance his desire to be a peaceful, benevolent, and ethical god? Or will everything devolve into chaos?

The first volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

©2025 Joshua David Mullenary (P)2025 Podium Audio

Very enjoyable.

Concept and execution were done well enough, story was interesting albeit not for me but I had a great time generally speaking. I do highly recommend that you (pretty much anyone) give this a try, it was a fun, easy read with a great narrator and an interesting premise, there were some things I wasn’t a huge fan of but I’m probably in the minority there. Give it a go, it’s big fun

Thoroughly Entertaining

Finding this story to be hilarious different and fresh. Overall great book and I can't wait for book 2.

This is a more mature world.Keep her serious

In some ways, it's like the person who wrote this. he had read the series the world keeper and took all of the frat boy parts out decided to do a more mature in some ways it's is dynamic. but at the same time, predictable.
It's more mature because he deals with the
Personal assistant as a man. Taking it that frat boy part and he deals with the. Learning variants and the disgraphic aspects of that in a really amazing way. If I hadn't read the world keeper series, then this would have been a must read, but because I have it can be sort of paint by numbers. When it comes to the plot There is also another problem The performance, the narrator is amazing. Other works, but it does not work here he's just he accents the wrong thing, and can turn a person off when it comes to this book. I enjoy him in other projects, but this one. No it's just not him

Cool idea. Annoying MC.

MC is really annoying has anger management, swears excessively and makes bad jokes. The creation elements were really interesting but are only like 20% of the story. also MCs back story makes him seem lame jobless teacher that got cheated on.

Unique Isekai, Majorly Consistency Issues

Mild spoiler warning!

He creates fish and their food source is automatically created, but he creates water and "forgot" to create clouds. How does that make sense?

He creates a species of worm, places them all over his planet, one worm escapes and suddenly all the worms are gone but the fish are fine. I don't think that was ever explained.

The whole story is full of logical gaps like this.

Often times new steps come up in his game and those steps were never explained to the audience but the MC already knows about it. For example, humans start waking up on his planet at some point but I don't recall them ever mentioning anything about putting people there and the MC isn't surprised at all.

Plus, the whole story revolves around basic biology but the writer doesn't seem to understand basic biology. For example, he doesn't seem to understand the difference between evolution and mutation.

He also doesn't explain how his creations often don't need food.

He never seems to say what his planets atmosphere is made up of or have any creation step for his atmosphere. It's just a given that an atmosphere exists, but again he needs to remember to create clouds.