6 decades books

Riven Cross was an Army Ranger on leave, until a strange bracer yanked him violently out of reality. Now, he''''s marooned in a brutal, game-driven realm teetering on the edge of collapse.Branded an Outlier by the System, Riven isn’t the world’s destined savior, he’s its last resort. The dungeon, once a proving ground for heroes, has become a fractured battleground: factions locked in endless war, power-hungry Elites playing gods, and monsters clawing at the thin boundary between worlds.Riven’s skills? Combat scars, a pocketknife, and a desperate promise to his pregnant sister and her child, now taken by a Faction Elite. The System expects him to conquer floors, level up, and restore order. But in a place where rules are written to doom outsiders, even survival will demand the impossible. With only the help of sarcastic old guide and his iron will, he has to find a way through this dungeon world. Enemies are everywhere: manipulative adversaries with world-breaking magic, and a System that measures victory in Tasks completed. Hunted, and always outnumbered, Riven must rewrite the rules, because in the System’s eyes, Outliers are the Champions it calls on, when all else has failed.