Path of Steel opens Valerios’s new apocalypse LitRPG

Gary survives the Network’s violent arrival and enters a forest of alien monsters with a pencil and a determination to fight back.

Aethon lists the first Path of Steel novel for October 6. Valerios builds the apocalypse around the Network’s purge of people incompatible with magic and Gary’s attempt to survive its hostile new world. The publisher describes cultivation elements and power progression. The audiobook arrives on the same date, narrated

by J.S. Arquin, with a listed runtime of 35 hours and 46 minutes. Official Aethon listing. Headline image: official cover artwork from Aethon Books.

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