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First Wave

A System Apocalypse LitRPG (Endgame Earth, Book 1)

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First Wave

By: Marko Duskborn
Narrated by: Cindy Palmer
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The world doesn’t end with fire.

It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones.

Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math.

Suddenly, Alec isn’t just surviving the collapse.

He’s being ranked.

A system he can’t see is measuring everything: pain tolerance, instinct, aggression, efficiency. Power condenses into his palm like code made physical. A fire axe becomes more than a tool. And every decision—fight, flee, hide, help—feeds the same cold scoreboard.

But the Wave isn’t done.

Something is waking beneath the relay station. Something ancient, engineered, and hungry. If Alec can’t learn the rules fast enough, he won’t just die out here.

He’ll become part of the System.

FIRST WAVE is a high-stakes LitRPG apocalypse packed with progression, survival combat, and a world where leveling up is the only way to stay human—when reality itself is trying to patch you out.

©2026 Marko Duskborn (P)2026 Marko Duskborn
Adventure Dystopian Science Fiction
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First Wave is such an exciting and addictive guide that really pulled me into its intense, fast paced world where every decision feels like a fight for survival. I loved the thrilling mix of action, progression and high stakes, making it a gripping story that kept me eager to see what would happen next.

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