Title: Dragon Seed (The Archemi Online Chronicles #1)
Genre: Fantasy LitRPG with a dash of Horror
Mature Content: Yes - Profanity, Sex and (possible) Gore

Dragon Seed is the first novel in my Archemi Online series, in which a young American-Korean man, Hector Park, is uploaded into an experimental open-world videogame. Inside of Archemi, he pursues his dream of becoming a dragon-bonded knight while facing down hackers, agonized revenants, and bugs within the game - some of which relate directly to his character. 

Deviating from the MMO focus of many LitRPGs, Dragon Seed is inspired by classic JRPGs such as Terranigma, Secret of Mana, and Final Fantasy 6.

Link to Fiction: https://royalroadl.com/fiction/12117

Synopsis:

June 2068. After close to twenty years of global war, human beings will soon be extinct.

HEX is a super-flu with a five-day life cycle and a hundred percent mortality rate. It's tearing through an overpopulated world, killing millions, while teams of scientists and doctors urgently seek a cure. World governments are sending the privileged few to a space station, while the world’s biggest manufacturer of military and entertainment AI systems is seeking a lateral solution: uploading people’s minds into Archemi, a completely immersive fantasy VR-RPG.

Hector Park, a young conscripted soldier in the US Army, lost everyone he loves to HEX - and now he's dying, too. Determined to fight until the end, his world changes when he is approached by a mysterious woman with an unbelievable offer: to join the beta testing phase of Archemi and help the Ryuko New Reality Corporation give the dying a second chance at an eternal virtual life. However, the beta is a one-way trip, and a dangerous one at that.

Even if Hector survives, he’ll have to find his place in a beautiful, savage world where the brightly colored dragons of Archemi and their human allies battle the invading drachan, evil technocratic dragons bent on draining the planet dry of magic and life. Not only that, but the real-life enemies of the Allied forces Hector fought may be playing games of their own. If Hector can't fight back from the inside, he might find that he’s traded death from HEX for eternal slavery in another world.