Cyber Squad - Level 1: A Gamelit/LitRPG Lite Cyberpunk Adventure
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Gregor grinned. “Indeed. Wunderbar.”
They clinked glasses.
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>enter_secure_line
“We need to make this quick,” the faceless figure said. “I can’t hold the secure line for long.”
“I know,” the other faceless figure answered. “We received your report. Good job.”
“What now?”
Both figures stood in the nowhere. A seemingly endless white. A secure line deeply embedded in the Dark Net. It wasn’t only their body shapes and faces that were unrecognizable but also their voices.
“We wait.”
There was slight irritation in the coded voice. “How much longer?”
“We need to wait for the right moment to bring them down. All of them. All of it. You know that. You are exactly where we need you to be. Inside Helltek.”
“I understand.”
“Keep an eye on the new guy. Make sure he trusts you.”
“Copy that. He already does. Easy game.”
“Very good. He will be a valuable asset.”
“I need to go.”
“We will reshape the world. Always remember that.”
>exit_secure_line
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Welcome to Cyber Squad Level Two, Kai!
You have unlocked new features!
Name: Kai
Level: 2
100/100
Team: 76B
Team Lead: Topher B.
Game: n.a.
Progression: 0/2000
Available Features: Dev mode, Console, God mode, Clipping
To be continued…
in
Cyber Squad
– Level Two
Dear Reader,
Thank you so much for reading my book! It means the world to me.
I hope you enjoyed Kai’s adventures and initiation into the Cyber Squad. He will soon learn that he’s seen nothing yet. After all, this was only Level One!
And there’s some scary shit out there on the Net…
Before you leave, can I ask you for a favor?
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Cyber Squad – Level 1 is only the beginning of Kai’s adventure! The sequel, Cyber Squad – Level 2, is in the making and is coming soon!
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Did you like Behind Blue Eyes, the shooter Kai and his friends are testing and competing in? It’s based on my cyberpunk series published under my other author name. If you like my writing style and would like to read something different, then make sure to check it out.
It’s darker and more violent than Cyber Squad and even more action-driven. Oh, and it has badass killer-cyborgs, one of whom is Nephilim, who appears as an NPC in the game in Cyber Squad.
You can find Behind Blue Eyes here:
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It’s also available as an audiobook!
Description:
In a future world ruled by warring mega-corporations, cyborg Nephilim believed she was fighting a righteous cause.
As a powerful, genetically and cybernetically enhanced elite soldier her brutal and violent life is not truly her own – until one day, a simple glitch separates her from the grid.
For the first time in her life, she is free…and she has doubts. Doubts that bury deeper into her psyche when she meets Jake, a mysterious, 100% bio-human.
He opens her neon-blue eyes to the lies she had been exposed to all her life. Questioning everything she has ever known, Nephilim resolves to take a stand. To hold on to this freedom, she has miraculously discovered. But can one person, no matter how strong, beat an all-powerful system of oppression? Soon, Nephilim finds herself hunted by her own people in a deadly game of survival…
For fans of Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Altered Carbon!
“Sexy, violent and absolutely intriguing!”
★★★★★
“Brings Cyberpunk into the modern age!”
★★★★★
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Acknowledgments:
Many people helped to make this book possible, and I want to thank them with all my heart!
My parents, my brother, his wife and my beautiful nieces,
Ivano Lago, my fantastic cover designer,
Anthony Wright, my amazing editor,
My awesome beta readers: Aaron Wang, Emma Brown, David Monath, Samuel Alpe, JF Danskin, Walker Johnson and Matthew Barbeler.
Tao Wong and the LitRPG Writer’s Guild for their endless patience and advice,
The LitRPG community on Facebook! Find them here and join in: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LitRPG.books/,
And last but not least, I want to thank
YOU, dear reader!
Thanks so much for reading my book! I hope you had a great time!
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[1] Non Player Character: any character that is part of the game and not a player.
[2] Head-up display.
[3] In real life.
[4] An alien race in StarCraft; gamers still use the term for a coordinated attack with many units.
[5] Crouching above a fallen enemy player to humiliate them, considered as very rude and childish.
[6] Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.
[7] Australian slang: girl.
[8] Player versus player.
[9] Player versus entity.
[10] Damage dealer.
[11] Gamer slang for stamina and mana potions.
[12] Area of effect: a special attack in RPGs allowing a player to do damage to enemies in an area for a certain amount of time, usually with fire, poison, etc.
[13] Damage over time: a special attack that keeps damaging the enemy for a certain amount of time, which often uses poison, fire, ice, etc.
[14] Frames per second; defines how smoothly a game runs.
[15] User interface.