Class-A Threat (Disgardium Book #1) LitRPG Series

Good read
I love it. All of the characters are well developed and interesting. I also like how the power system is put together.

Awesome series
Fantastic series. I started with sample 2 weeks ago and now Im reading book 4. I started to feel sceptic about litpr but this one bring me back into Life reset addiction several years ago.

Awesome read
Second one of Dan’s books I have read. I really enjoyed it. If you are on the fence about reading it, give it a chance you will enjoy it.

Awesome story, full of energy
Wonderful story. Well balanced characters, story. It’s full of energy an hard to put down story. Great flow, recommended read

It’s been quite a long time since I have read a dystopian LITrpg and with such an interesting premise. Alex is not your typical relatable MC quite annoying in some of his decision making and inter personal skills are. But given the family background we can try to understand what the author is trying to portray in his MC. World building is good, supporting characters need more depth. Enjoyable light read nonetheless for this genre. Looking for the next in the series.

So there are 3 parts I really like about the books content1. Building of the Real World2. The character(s)3. The way the game works1. Building of the Real World:Disgardium plays in a relatively far semi post apocalyptic mild dystopia. After the monetary system crashed the world found itself under a singular reign with a new currency being the Phoenix, roughly the same worth as a dollar. In this world there are 20 billion people and only 10% of those are actually needed to run literally anything, so the remaining 90% are mainly to entertain the top 10%, mostly in some way playing or working the game “Disgardium”.Now the government in this world has a citizenship test, which everyone does when they are 16 years old. Depending on how good you were, depends on the class of citizen you become. A high class citizen has better apartments, more money, better healthcare and in general more things he can do. A lower class citizen usually only has left that their parents pay for college or to play disgardium (low level work is non existent in this world, you can’t work without university education).The game Disgardium works essentially as a way to transfer money from rich people to poor people. A poor person may work in the guild of a rich person and be paid for tasks in it, gold can be directly transferred to Phoenix at roughly 1 Phoenix per 1 Gold and thus live from it. The government also demands of every child age 14-16 to at least play 1 hour of Disgardium per day and people who failed the citizenship test can only be stuff such as miners in Disgardium, essentially working all day long without the chance to actually play normally.2. The character(s)The one thing I believe is special on this author in this genre is that he always makes mediocre or worse characters. Most litrpg books have like these uber characters, people who can work for 3 days straight, who are constantly motivated to do more, who are really living that world. Now this one isn’t. He is really mediocre, never informed himself before beginning to play the game just to instantly fail at correctly skilling himself, then realize that the game is hard only to just hate on it and spend the rest of his mandatory 1 hour a day doing nothing.He instead intends to study, which is kind of possible with middle class parents, them being Class F citizens, but then a few things happen and of course he can’t go to university and he never bothered to study enough to become one of the top 10% students so he will have to pay for University himself.Thus he reluctantly begins to play Disgardium, immediatly failing everything you can fail at by being clumsy and not very nice.3. The way the game worksNow the most important part of any Litrpg is of course the game. Disgardium is a brutally hard game. It has numbed pain to some extend but is still painful. It is essentially impossible for someone to get through level 1 alone. Every single level 1 monster will without fail beat a level 1 player and if not skilled correctly, even a group of level 1 players. Not helping is the fact that nobody starts with a weapon and weapons are expensive to new players. There are however social quests, that give you exactly 1 Exp and 1 Copper for several hours of work. (you need 400 to get to level 2) As such many of the best players (in MC’s area) only reached level 15 after 1.5 Years of playing for 8+ hours a day. However, the game does reward intelligent behaviour, one could for example: Invest a bit of money to pay a higher level player to level you the first few levels and to get a weapon, find a group to slowly level upwards, take a loan to get through the start and then pay it back with now being able to play correctly, get a profession that gives you a lot of experience in the beginning.One important aspects of Litrpg novels is of course the overpowered ability. And in my opinion, Disgardium has the best implementation of these. While most Litrpgs give the main characters some really broken abilities, this here attaches some strings to it and makes it an integral part of the game which is called “The Threat System”. People who manage to somehow get overpowered abilities are declared “Threat to the World” by the system, making a notification that one of these appeared in an area and calling for a hunt. A threat of course is not always immediatly detected and only after a player detects them, can they be got rid of. A threat can range from Class Z-A and if you become one the game calls out the current threat level and the potential. If a threat is defeated (killing isn’t always the end) the players character is deleted, all his items moved to a new character of the same level and the player receives a bunch of Gold depending on reached threat level. A Z-threat for example receives 1,000 Gold, a W-threat already 200,000 (I believe). Hunters gain Gold based on potential threat level, so it makes sense to get rid of a threat before it becomes too strong.I really like that system as it makes overpowered abilities not seem as cheap, but they are an actual danger to the main character.SPOILERS ABOUT MAIN CHARACTERS ABILITIES:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now the main character of course becomes a threat to the world, by having 2 curses that work in symbiosis. The first being that he always respawns at his corpse with 1hp. (Which becomes a real problem at level 10 because then he loses EXP with every death. Making it great for PKers). The second being that on dying, he has a 1% chance to survive and take no damage until he recovered to full hp. With every triggering it increases by 1%. This also makes for the most stupid fighting in existence, as the main character just constantly looks like a Dark Souls speedrunner, having only underwear, because the armor is destroyed from dying too often. Then dying, instantly reviving, making a single hit with his fist, dying again from 1 hit and just doing this over and over, dying against the same mob for 30+ times until his ability triggers where he gathers a bunch of mobs, who constantly attack him while he throws punches in every direction.With this ability he can slay a bunch of mobs way stronger than him, farming a bunch of skill levels and levels in general.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SPOILER ENDAll in all I really like the book, the characters are much more down to earth. The interactions are very fitting and make the characters truly seem like they grew up in this dystopian world and the world interconnects very well.

The book was good, the in game world the MC plays in seems less dystopian than the real world he lives in, family’s ranked by their potential benefit to society, gaining money and benefits over non citizens who basically live in slum style apartments and eat manufactured protein meals, because it’s all they can afford. Mandatory service in a VR game for school children in immersion pods to promote socialisation skills… When a game is the way many people earn wages is a far step from our reality. The in game progress of the MC is also a far cry from what anyone would call standard in LitRPG. It was interesting and enjoyable. I did find several grammatical mistakes, but not enough to stop me reading. Thanks for the book Dan.