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.

There was a movement in the air, a change of intensity that even Varion and Sarah caught immediately. The Goliath Mammoth must have felt it too because either in a fit of anger or irritation, it let out an ear splitting trumpet.


The siblings covered their ears immediately, blocking out the sound as much as they could while the force of the burst shook the very river itself.


Then, they felt that familiar bone-chilling aura again. From the golden gates.


Varion and Sarah froze. Deremiah, now on the boat, turned around with Cestrel, their eyes widening at the sight of that relentless guardian.


From behind the gates, the towering structure of stone emerged. Tall, humanoid yet emotionless, dressed in a religious garment of worship and war. Driven by a purpose.


Chapter 53 - • Dual Adversaries