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.

Varion, Sarah and Cestrel held on tight to their boat, praying the mad waves wouldn't topple it over and send them into the water. 


At that time, the Stone Sentinel had already regained its footing, water cascading from its rocky limbs. The mammoth moaned once again, shaking its massive head in defiance as the battlefield quaked under the World Shaker ability.


Elora barely managed to stay upright. She bent her body low, darting across the mammoth's back, breathing in short, heavy bursts. 


'That monster is so resilient!' she said in her thoughts. 'If the Mammoth is unable to kill it, then I'm going to die for sure.'


The Sentinel locked onto her again, and without wasting a single second, it lifted its colossal sword and swung down with unstoppable force.


Elora twisted at the last moment, rolling out of the way and finding safety behind a rocky protrusion. 


Chapter 56 - • The Corruption of Aldus