RESPAWN: Book One of the Ascension Saga

When you die on Earth, you don't go to heaven. You get drafted.When Dale Kowalski dies on a rain-slicked Michigan highway, he wakes up in the Continuum - a galaxy-spanning simulation where the recently dead are conscripted, leveled up, and thrown into a war against an enemy called the Null.He starts at Level 1 with a broken body and a rock. But Dale's spent his whole life absorbing hits so other people didn't have to - and in a system built to harvest soldiers, that might be the one thing it never accounted for.The deeper he levels, the more he uncovers: a black market trading in stolen levels, a Handler skimming souls for profit, and a truth about the war itself that the system was never meant to let him find."You don't have to win. You just have to still be here when it's done trying."RESPAWN is a complete, standalone sci-fi LitRPG story - Book One of the Ascension Saga.