by Edwin McRae (Author), Rachel Rees (Editor)
Swords, Spells, Stats and Slaughter
Mark wakes up in a burning town inside a Full Immersion Virtual Reality RPG called Reign of Blood. He flees from the reiver slavers who are abducting the village's NPCs, only to have an agonizing encounter with the wrong end of a ranger's arrow. After trying and failing to log out of this painfully realistic game, Mark decides to take up his sword, embrace his new Warlock character class, and help the ranger rescue her people.
The warlock and his hard-nosed ranger are soon joined by a macabre healer, an earth-shaking druid and a talking fortress. But as Mark takes the fight to the reivers, he uncovers an even deadlier threat. Dark magic is spreading into Garland from a long dead city, and the reiver leader has found a way to harness some of that corrupted power for himself.
Level by level, spell by spell, Mark must become the warlock that Garland needs before it falls to the corrupted ambitions of a rising tyrant.
If you love...
Visceral combat
Lovecraftian monsters
Ancient ruins
Swords and sorcery
Completely original spells
...then Warlock: Reign of Blood is for you
Warlock is Book 1 in the Chasms of Corruption duology.