After being kidnapped and thrown into a VRMMORPG, 17-year-old Suzuki Mato must find the line between his real and in-game personalities before it kills him. ***** Following the death of his popular online persona, seventeen-year-old Suzuki Mato decides it's time to retire from professional VR gaming. However, his plans are abruptly cut short when he's kidnapped from his high school and forced to be a guinea pig for Genaco Gaming, the world's largest esports and entertainment company. Armed with nothing but his wit and a new online persona, he's thrown headfirst into the virtual reality of "Live No Evil," a VRMMORPG littered with overpowered bosses, secretive NPCs, and backstabbing gods. His mission? Find a way to conquer this new world and get back at the company that took over his life, all while avoiding 'Parallel' -- a condition that would make it impossible to separate his real and virtual personalities. Because in a world obsessed with VR gaming, Parallel means death, and Suzuki just doesn't have time for that... [Parallel Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 out now, Vol. 3 coming soon] Content/Trigger Warning: some transphobic language

all credit to the original novel goes to Dmity Glukhovsky, this is NOT his book, it's a short story that builds off of the book. the year is 2033, the world has ended, or so it seems. the place is Russia and it has been in nuclear fallout like the rest of the world, since 2013. most of the survivors retreated to the crowded spaces of the metros where they live to this very day

Artyom was your everyday elite in the Metro Elite Forces, but when his team is sent to the surface, everything backfires and Artyom and his men are left to fend for themselves.