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

The situation in this Trial was very similar to others. They needed teamwork, strategy but more important was time management.

As usual, the trope of the goal and the test continued.

"Listen," he said, glancing at the both of them. "I know how we can survive this Trial, but you both have to follow me and forget about asking questions. Just do as I say."

Cestrel quickly nodded, her agreement immediate. Deremiah's gaze shifted to Elora.

Like he expected, she hesitated for just a moment, her eyes lingering on his before giving a curt nod as well.

Satisfied, he turned forward, his eyes locked on the swirling mist ahead.

"Though it looks like just any ordinary one, that fog is filled with an energy corruption gas," he explained.

"It's going to continuously corrupt our cores until we're too weak to fight. Once that happens, the beasts will have no trouble killing us."

• The Withered Abyss (1)