![]() ![]() Also, this novel is only posted on Royalroad, Patreon, and my Amazon releases, so if you are reading it elsewhere, it's pirated and you suck if you keep reading. ![]() Any feedback is more than welcome, of course. This is my first novel ever, and English isn’t my native language, so go easy on me chaps. Tags and content warnings are mainly to give me creative freedom later on. Perhaps… Jake was born for this kind of world, to begin with. In a world that should breed fear and concern, an environment that makes his fellow coworkers falter, Jake instead finds himself thriving. Into a tutorial filled with dangers and opportunities. Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into this new world. ![]() A world where power is the only thing that one can truly rely on. The universe had reached a threshold humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse. On just another normal Monday, the world changed. Book 1 now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited & Audible ![]()
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Those who make it into the boats drift among the ice floes for over a year, gradually trying to make their way to land.Įventually they arrive at Elephant Island. Somehow most of the crew manages to launch escape boats before the ship sinks, but some men are forced to leap overboard and are lost to the ice. This occurs somewhere in the Weddell Sea. ![]() Tragically, the Endurance crashes into some ice and takes on water. A voyage of this magnitude and consequence has never been attempted before. After lengthy preparation, everyone is excited for the adventure. They're manifested to cross the continent of Antarctica. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarks with his crew aboard the Endurance. 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