The Slayer

A LitRPG Saga (Aether Gate Online, Book 1)

By: Darren Hultberg Jr

Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett

"Raise your blade. Take up the mantle of Slayer."

Adam’s life was anything but easy. With people at both school and home eager to make his life a living hell, the only place he felt like himself was in the virtual world. At least there he had some control.

When the newest VRMMORPG title gets announced, Adam and his best friend, Max, are more than ready to dive in. Launch day arrives quickly, and Adam is plunged into a world that’s more immersive than anything he’s experienced before. Although the game offers a bevy of character choices, Adam quickly chooses the title of Slayer, a class that specializes in taking down stronger, more difficult opponents.

Adam begins his adventure, but it's not long before he realizes there’s much more at stake when taking a life in this new game. The pain is very real, and death...is permanent. Now, trapped in a virtual world, Adam must take the mantle of Zander Darkblade and brave the dangers of the Aether Gate.

It is a world of mighty creatures and fallen gods. A world where powerful familiars bond with their masters, granting them extraordinary powers they wield with uncanny force...and as Adam and the others will soon discover, it is a world of secrets that have lain hidden for far too long....

Welcome to Aether Gate Online.

Disclaimer: This novel is a LitRPG/gamelit title. Its contents include various role-playing game stats and video game references.

©2018 Darren Hultberg Jr (P)2018 Darren Hultberg Jr

A new twist for this genre

I am not a gamer, but I have found that I am really enjoying this new genre of writing. This story, however, has a different twist to the usual storyline. THIS story is truly life and death, good vs evil, the end is the end of the game. Want to know what I'm talking about? Read the book, because there is no end game or escape in the normal sense of the word. But, believe me, you want to read to the end...
I listened to the audio book version of this book. Scott Bennett is one of my favorite narrators. I love the smoothness of his story telling. He is able to find the heart of the characters and bring them out in their voice and the sense of their actions are felt in the hearing of their expressions.
I highly recommend this book and this narrator!

Simply put it's a very good read.

First off wow I'm in no way new to Litrpgs and this one snuck past me and man was I missing out. This was an absolutely fantastic read, to me had a feeling of a more realistic of Sword Art Online. The author took the light-handed rout as far as stats go there in there but just enough to show progression but not enough to be overbearing or repetitive. The story was amazingly a well-thought-out without the feeling of the story dragging the pacing is fantastic the character progression stat-wise and personality-wise was also good.

The Slayer

This audiobook is one of the most enjoyable in the genre and I am really excited for Aether Gate Online Book 2. So I started listening to book 2.

Great Start to a Series!

This was exciting and fun to listen to. It is what I would imagine playing video games IRL to be. The story kept me engaged and it was hard to stop listening. I will have to get the rest of the series and I recommended to my HS age child as I think he would love this! It is a fun listen I highly recommend.

Book one

Very easy listening . I love how I was immediately drawn into the story as if I were a fly on the wall. the narrator was really good and ive listened to bad ones. cant wat for the next volume