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Ascension Game: Darkness Before Life
Paperback
Series: Ascension Game, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 17 2026
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the sky fractures and the System descends, Dorian Black doesn't get a gentle introduction, he gets a countdown.
A brutal new reality forces strangers into a deadly tutorial where leveling up is the only way to survive and hesitation is paid for in blood. Monsters aren't the only threat. Fear turns people into weapons. Power turns them into predators. And the System watches it all with cold amusement, rewarding the ruthless and punishing the weak.
Dorian has spent his whole life surviving things that should have broken him. In this world, that doesn't make him special, it makes him dangerous. As the waves grow worse and the rules keep changing, he's forced to lead, to adapt, and to decide what parts of himself he's willing to lose in exchange for strength.
Because in the Ascension Game, victory isn't about being good.
It's about being the last one standing.
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