Diver John: Dying for Views [Stubbing Sept 30th]

Book 1 is out on Amazon on 30 September, free in Kindle Unlimited. Get it here. The first five chapters stay on Royal Road. The end of the world will be televised. John O'Donnell was an engineer, mid-shift, when the Tutorial Dungeon swallowed the planet. Nine in ten humans are already dead. The rest got a System, a tutorial, and a show: the apocalypse airs nightly on the official broadcast, hosted by an elf in a tuxedo, with a twelve-foot skeleton general on commentary. His Undead Empire is what waits for humanity when the tutorial ends. The show has one rule: if you're entertaining, you're surviving. John has a different rule: stay boring. Keep his coworkers breathing. Then John gets the opportunity of a lifetime: an SSS-Rank Skill from his entrance test. Even basic C-Rank Skills blow people to pieces or hand out superhuman strength. His does neither. It's a Perception Skill. John uses it anyway: to dig up the Tutorial's secrets, to grow stronger, to pick murderers out of a crowd — and, most of all, to fight the Undead and uncover hidden treasures. The audience notices. If you give an SSS-Rank Perception Skill to an engineer, expect him to get smart with it. What to expect: - A smart, methodical MC - Streaming features, lots of achievements, loot chests - An incredibly strong SSS-Rank Perception Skill used to outthink the Tutorial, the Undead, and malicious divers - A reality-show apocalypse - A crew of ordinary coworkers, not a lone wolf (no coworker drama) - Unfair enemies meet an unfair Skill and get frustrated Inspired by Dungeon Crawler Carl, Primal Hunter, and Defiance of the Fall.