Forteller

Being the author of the breakout novel, Gates of The Primordials, Jarren Fletcher did not care about the constant critiques claiming he had a habit of treating extra characters as mere plot devices, creating and then dumping them once they’d served their purpose.

To Jarren, it didn’t matter. Extras were just that—extras. All that mattered was the main character.

But Jarren never expected to wake up in his own story, reincarnated as one of the meaningless, disposable extra characters, Deremiah Morcant—a coward who took his own life to escape the perilous challenges of the Gate Trials.

Now, Jarren has to face those deadly challenges himself in the body of a weak, insignificant extra. He must find a way to survive in the rules of the dangerous world he had created, whilst also trying to save it. 

But time is running out. The next Wave is coming, and so are the paragons.

The Author Reincarnated As An Extra

Deremiah continued to stare at her, then he realized that he had not answered her question of what he thought he was to do in this Trial.

He had to regulate his answer here. To Elora, he was a normal boy, a One-Marked in fact, who wouldn't know anything close to what Deremiah knew. So, he squared his shoulders and responded with feigned assurance.

Elora lifted both brows uneventfully, like that was the exact kind of answer she was expecting. "Yes, killing the Paragon beast is the penultimate challenge of this Trial, but it's not the aim of the Trial. You are being tested. Killing the Paragons ends the test, but how you do it is the test itself."

Deremiah pretended to be learning, lowering his gaze in a thoughtful manner, like an uneducated child who was being mentored by a veteran master.

"Can you explain more?" he lifted his head and asked.

• Elora Cassiel (2)