Persistent Chimera: A Dark LitRPG Progression Fantasy (The Chimera Codex Book 4)

Survival was never the goal. Being allowed to exist was. Mikaya Zimmaro and her companions have stopped running. The Lattice no longer hunts them, no longer corrects their existence with violence or collapse. Instead, it watches, measures, and budgets. Their world has stabilised into something worse than danger: permission. In a system where every action carries a cost, survival becomes a line item, and inefficiency becomes a weapon. As containment shifts from pursuit to administration, Mikaya discovers that the Lattice's greatest weakness isn't rebellion, power, or force, but expense. Emotion. Memory. Meaning. Things that cannot be optimised without wasting resources. >When the Lattice responds with its most ruthless solution yet, averaging anomalies into irrelevance, Mikaya must confront a terrifying truth: staying alive may now require becoming invisible. Persistent Chimera is the fourth book in a dark LitRPG progression fantasy series where power has consequences, survival is conditional, and the system always gets what it pays for.

Pages: 284, Paperback, Independently published