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I, The Glitch: Soul Scavenger: LitRPG Progression System Adventure Fantasy
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Series: I, the Glitch, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 25 2025
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the rain-slicked undercity of Veridia, a glittering metropolis powered by the ghosts of the dead, the only thing Caleb Mason scavenges more desperately than scrap metal is time. In a world where skills and memories-called Echoes-can be harvested and installed like software, Caleb is a Static, a classless nobody with nothing to his name but a deck of worthless, low-grade Echoes and a younger sister, Mia, who is succumbing to the Fade, a neurological plague that is slowly erasing her from existence.
His only hope is a myth: the grand prize of the Synapse, a brutal, televised battle arena where champions wager their very identities. The winner is awarded a Prime Echo, a flawless memory rumored to be the only cure for the Fade.
When a street-side disaster leaves him with an impossible debt to a ruthless enforcer and a back-alley doctor declares Mia has only weeks to live, Caleb's only path forward is down, into the one place a Static like him is destined to die. Armed with a junk drawer deck-the balance of a dead courier, the focus of a forgotten watchmaker, the touch of a fallen locksmith-he must face off against gods of the arena, corporate-sponsored champions wielding decks of perfect, deadly skills.
But Caleb holds a secret even more dangerous than his opponents: an illegal, glitched piece of hardware fused to his mind, a Zero Echo that allows him to temporarily copy his rivals' abilities. It's a power that could let him win, but its volatile, unpredictable Burn threatens to shatter his own mind. If the arena's masters discover his secret, they won't just disqualify him, they'll kill him to protect their monopoly on power.
To save his sister, Caleb must become the ultimate underdog, a scavenger of souls in a game where the price of victory is a piece of your own. But in an arena where every win means absorbing the ghosts of your fallen rivals, will he lose himself before he can reach the prize?
Welcome to the Synapse-a televised, corporate-sponsored bloodsport at the heart of a cyberpunk dystopia. This is a brutal, high-octane adventure where memories are wielded as weapons, souls are the ultimate prize, and survival means scavenging skills from the ghosts of your fallen opponents. If you crave gritty deathmatches, underdog heroes fighting a corrupt system, and a dark, neon-soaked world, then prepare to enter the arena.
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