There’s good details about the profession the MC chooses and enough challenges that it's not boring and that he doesn’t automatically become super good immediately. The crafting in the story is also very well done. Each level adds to a person’s stats, gives them choices for powers/abilities/skills, and there’s enough options that the reader can theorize what they’d do.

Combat classes level, so do people’s Human races, and eventually their crafting Professions. There’s a clear multilayered system for progression. Especially as the author develops truly sociopathic characters as antagonists for the MC.

But it’s this serial nature of the story that also develops other interesting characters, faction conflicts, reveals how the RPG progression works in advancing classes, evolving races, and what use professions are. The story shifts about 30% in, showing its serial nature, by pushing the then kinda OP MC into a crafting side journey to give the other tutorial players time to grow their own levels. Especially as the system rewards him with unique bonuses, bloodlines, and abilities. He comes off as an almost sociopathic, though more amoral, person that thrives in this tutorial environment because he is good at archery and is willing to kill monsters and even humans to gain levels and skills. The main character (MC) is antisocial and hard to like, though easy to sympathize with. The story starts out a little rough with a group of people getting transported to an RPG fantasy tutorial for the apocalypse. My Opinion: 716 pages, $4.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited This is the world Jake was meant to be born in. His fellow coworkers falter at every turn. His new reality should breed fear and concern. Into a tutorial filled with dangers and opportunities. Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into this new world. A place where power is the only thing anyone can truly rely on. The universe reached a threshold humanity didn’t even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse.

It was a day like any other when suddenly the world changed.

On just another average day, Jake finds himself in a forest filled with monsters, dangers, and opportunity.

The Primal Hunter by Zogarth