The Mirror (Loop Bound #1)

The System didn’t come to save Earth. It came to harvest it.

When the blue screens appeared, 99% of humanity was instantly converted into fuel to "recalibrate" the planet. Logan Hale was part of the 1% allowed to survive—not because he was a hero, but because he was an anomaly.

Dropped into a tutorial city run by ancient, militaristic races, Logan receives a Trait that defies the logic of the Fractal Self.

While other survivors climb a linear path to power, Logan is trapped in a loop of destruction and rebirth. Every time he reaches a threshold, his class shatters. His level resets to one. He is stripped of his title, forced to master a new archetype from scratch.

But he keeps the fragments.

With every reset, his stats stack. With every shattered class, he retains the deadliest skills. He is becoming a patchwork monster, a glitched variable in a perfectly ordered game.

Guided by Alyndra—an ancient Queen of Carnage who treats trauma as a teaching tool and morality as a weakness—Logan must survive a forest that wants him dead and a "tutorial" that offers no safety nets. But when a rival group pushes him too far, Logan discovers that the System offers power far darker than simple levels.