Harper was making an ambitiously expansive game, a new type of game with more options than the basic hack-and-slash, where exploration and cleverness were a legitimate course of action, not an extra-hard mode. But he died before he could complete his project. Only to be reborn in that world, as a normal person. Now he is in the world that he created and realizes that he knows things no one else knows, secrets only he knows. Harper sets off to find some of these secrets, wanting to make sure that he has the power to ensure that his world remains pure, that no one will have the power to ruin it like other games. And if the only way to do that is for him to get himself enough magic and mystical artifacts that he can determine the future of the world, then so be it. It wouldn’t be conquest if it was for a good cause. Right?
A World of My Own Making is created by Joe Weinberg, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

A World of My Own Making

Its strange that the first floor didnt have anything to fight. It means we have no idea what the second floor is going to do. We got 10,000xp each for completing the floor, but were still unprepared for what were going to run into. Is it going to be level 27? Higher? Lower? Theres no way to be sure.


So we move carefully, checking for traps and walking with our weapons out. The staircase leads into a huge room, so big that we cant see the ceiling. And the air is somehow thicker. The darkness presses at the edge of our light sources like its actively trying to swallow it as we go deeper. 


The floor beneath my feet feels odd, too. Its slippery, but somehow sticky at the same time. I feel like I know what this is, but I cant put my finger on it.


I strain my eyes looking into the darkness, trying to catch something. A glint of light off something metal, a twinkle of gemstone, anything. But the darkness is cloying, the silence pressured, and the tension palpable.


Chapter 40: The Dungeon of Jyger-Te, Floor Two