
In SerialThe Man Who Taught The Machine Fantasy Sci-fi Action Adventure Virtual Reality Supernatural
A game developer finds himself reborn into the world he created. He also made the powerful AI that controls the system, so what happens when he finds out the system created him more than once?
Shane Carther works as a developer for an ambitious new AAA game. The game, Endless Veil is an open-world RPG with contextual quests and endless procedural generation powered by an AI Director of Shane's own making.
The game world is populated by random events, dungeons, NPC outposts, portals, boss fights, wandering merchants, and more. Through machine learning, all of these encounters have context and backstory.
Right before the game's launch, Shane wakes up inside his own game. At first, this looks like a blessing as Shane has a robust custom class that gives him many more opportunities than usual to acquire power—and exciting loot.
Shane quickly learns that life in his game's world is authentic and deadly. Even though he respawns endlessly after dying, there are fates worse than death and rebirth. Fates like discovering you've already been reborn into Endless Veil many times and failed.
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*I am now aware another author has previously used the same copyright-free cover image I am using. While their story is no longer being supported on Royal Road, I do plan on replacing my book's cover with something more custom later on!
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1. Chapter 0: Prologue
2. Chapter 1: New Game
3. Chapter 2: Respawning
4. Chapter 3: First Encounter
5. Chapter 4: Golden Loot-Pupper
6. Chapter 5: The Price of The Road
7. Chapter 6: Failed Negotiations
8. Chapter 7: To The Victor Goes The Spoils
9. Chapter 8: Hard Reset
10. Chapter 9: The Portal
11. Chapter 10: Blow For A Blow
12. Chapter 11: Greater Truths
13. Chapter 12: A Talking Metal Ball
14. Chapter 13: Corrupted
15. Chapter 14: Courage and Desperation
16. Chapter 15: Painful Destiny
17. Chapter 16: Fragments of Another Life
18. Chapter 17: Resonance Shard
19. Chapter 18: Home Is Where The Hearth Is
20. Chapter 19: Her Clingy Web
21. Chapter 20: The More, The Merrier!
22. Chapter 21: Watch Me Fight, Master!
23. Chapter 22: Frantic Evolution
24. Chapter 23: The Stars Beyond The Sky
25. Chapter 24: The Things You Miss While Dead
26. Chapter 25: The First Feast
27. Chapter 26: The City of Krooth
28. Chapter 27: Crank's Curio's and Goods
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