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

His first instinct was to make a run for it, or to summon the [Writhe of Command] and warp out of there. His legs trembled as the creature slithered slowly, like it was scanning his level of threat with those skull-shaped faces embedded in its skin.

Deremiah held his sword tighter, slick with sweat, as his mind raced with half-formed plans. None of them felt good enough.

He glanced in Elora's direction where she had fallen, checking if she was moving and also if she was looking at his direction.

Thankfully, he saw that she was getting on her feet and he saw her head was also turned away from him, unaware of his predicament. If there was ever a time to use his power, it was now, while her attention was elsewhere.

With a sharp exhale, Deremiah summoned as much Void needed from his Core and extended them outwards through his body. Doing so, his body dissolved into the bubbling, purple goo.

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