The world is about to change, and not in a warm and fuzzy way.

The System has arrived. Soon, magic will permeate the entire planet, society will be disrupted, and Dungeon-spawned monsters will walk the Earth. A few lucky people — or unlucky enough to become merely the first die horribly - have been given the honor of becoming Exemplars and given System-provided power to either help or torment their fellow humans. This is one of their stories.

Meet Roland Webb, former Army E-5, now team lead at a GameDrop store. His life has been shrouded in death since his birth, but it has now become boring and mundane. All that changes when he sees some strange lights on the road and is driven to investigate. What follows is a struggle for survival, making choices to advance in the Paths of the System, and figuring out how to become strong enough to protect his friends and family — and perhaps many more (or a lot less, if he drops dead along the way).

Armed with an Epic Class, a Dual-Path that includes Cultivation, a collapsible baton and a hefty helping of gallows humor, Roland goes on to meet all manner of strange creatures and beat, stab, and eventually shoot them to death. Along the way he gains a growing list of deadly game-like Skills to perform feats you'd normally only see in movies. comics or manga.

Fear the Reaper is the first book of the Dungeon Apocalypse series, which includes LitRPG and Gamelit elements, a Cultivation and Class system competing against each other, and plenty of action. It has no harem or explicit scenes and focuses on action and adventure with a few laughs mixed in,