#Archemi Online Chronicles

[femalebookworm]

Typical reading time is about 8h42min, book 1/6 in The Alchemi Online Chronicles. This was a freebie I got long ago, I read the summary, thought it wasn’t for me, but I’m game to trying one genre/type of story at least once before saying “hate it”. Also, summary tells me that “if you love Dungeons and Dragons…”, I’ll be honest, I don’t know what that is, but I’ll try. And yes, I am psyching myself here, cause I never played the games listed on the summary. Started reading late Tuesday, almost Wednesday (Jan31), ended on February 3, 2:21pm.

A sweeping virus was cleaning the whole world of health making it a cemetery of large buildings and whatnot. The savior of mankind for the remaining human kind is nothing but AI based. A game where people consciousness was uploaded to the cloud for the intent to help save human kind from the virus while working on a cure, but also keeping the bodies alive while in this super real game, death-betrayal-secrets were about to come to light by the right person: Hector.

Hector upon waking in the game for the first time, chose his fate - his avatar, his skills and aimed high in the breathing fire sky: dragons. This first volume is his adventure, his pooped cherry, secrets and backstabbing and the final moment: dragon. But he offers a twist: he has no alliance to any kingdom, and his mission is secret even for himself. Be ready to put the puzzle together and encounter the equivalent of, “to be continued” last words of a paragraph that leaves our main character, his Dino-like horse, and his newest member of the family, a dragon queen.

Reading a dragon baby hatching was far better than playing tamagotchi, I tell you that. I cried.

And yes, I was surprised to have enjoyed this book so much to shed a tear when it was over. The next book? Trial by Fire is on my to-read-list. When? No idea when, I just hope it don’t take long enough for me to forget the pickle Hector is truly in, and how he’s gonna bring a baby dragon to safety while wanted by the whole place/game. Be ready to hate on some characters pretty badly, be weary of others and certainly cheer yourself trusting in one or another. I secretly want to see Kira back — she seemed human to me.

Oh yeah, there are other players around who knows it is a game, who’d kill a fellow human in said game; it will turn you philosophical for a while — what is truly acceptable in this scenario? And many other questions, but more importantly, are there any developers alive or the real world is long gone, and Hector is bound to live this AI reality (his body is gone, nuked, no way to return). Nah, can’t think straight to keep going. Forget the game stats, enjoy the outloud rant when appropriate and enjoy the plot. That’s what I did, cause the “game” itself was not it for me.

Adieu.

(and yeah, this was pre-pandemic, there was a tiny trauma by reading it a bit. Fiction can be worse than reality, but it sure can exist).

[cyber1ife]

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