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Hardcore [A Zombie Apocalypse Isekai LitRPG]
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Stu is an aging underachiever whose friends and family are always complaining about his lack of ambition. Perfectly content to spend his time playing video games, watching TV, and taking things easy, Stu ignores their complaints, breezing through life without a care in the world.
This boring, breezy life comes to an end, however, when two mysterious men kidnap him and march him through a portal to another world -- a world similar to our own, but which happens to be in the throes of a zombie apocalypse. Thrust into this unbelievable new world, with very few resources and with very little understanding of the situation, Stu quickly finds himself struggling to survive...and struggling to come to grips with the strange "ICON" system, which has somehow been implanted in his brain. The system rewards him with special skills for killing zombies, but killing zombies is the last thing Stu wants to do.
All he wants to do is go home.
Many years ago some friends of mine asked me to come up with a basic plot for an indie beat-em-up game they were thinking about making. We decided that the story would be about zombies -- it would follow the adventures of a hapless nerd named Stu, who sets out to rescue his favorite TV star in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. The idea was, Stu would start out almost totally helpless, but after completing each level and learning a new skill from the crazy people he encountered (boxers, cops, backwoods survivalists, and so on) he would gradually become an over-the-top badass jumping his motorcycle over fiery pits while blasting zombies like Rambo or something. That was the basic premise of Hardcore.
Unfortunately the video game project eventually fell through. I hung on to the idea, because I liked it, but I didn't know quite what to do with it -- it just didn't seem like a good fit for a prose novel. A video game, sure. A comic book, maybe. But a novel?
But then this LitRPG boom hit, and I started thinking Hardcore might work as a prose novel after all. I brushed off my old outline, expanded it, changed a few things around, and started writing it. So! Here we go.
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Chapter One: The Ordinary Life
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Chapter Two: Death and Darkness
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Three: Alone
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Four: Level 4 Zombie
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Five: Lucky
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Six: A Shamble of Zombies
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seven: The Brute
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Eight: Questions and Answers
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Nine: Skills
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Ten: Harbor
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Eleven: Weird World
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twelve: Critical Bonus
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Thirteen: The World We Live In
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Chapter Fourteen: Southside Elementary
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifteen: The Rager
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixteen: Cafeteria Chaos
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventeen: Luna
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Eighteen: Survivor
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Nineteen: A Broken World
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty: Excalibur
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty-One: The Living Hell
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty-Two: Breaking Point
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty-Three: Overachiever
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty-Four: Sunset
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty-Five: New Classes Available
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty-Six: Killer, Bulwark, Scavenger
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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Bulwark
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Twenty-Eight: On the Road
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Chapter Twenty-Nine: Heart's Glow
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Thirty: The Battle of Curly's Gym
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Chapter Thirty-One: Brick Wall
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Chapter Thirty-Two: Millie
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Chapter Thirty-Three: Infiltration
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Chapter Thirty-Four: The Morgue
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Chapter Thirty-Five: Hospital Horror
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Chapter Thirty-Six: The Researcher
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Chapter Thirty-Seven: Experiments
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Thirty-Eight: Escape?
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Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Lab Rat
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Forty: Goodbye, Heart's Glow
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Chapter Forty-One: New Skills
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Chapter Forty-Two: Silent Ambush
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Chapter Forty-Three: The Monster in the Mountains
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Chapter Forty-Four: The Cabin
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Forty-Five: The Cannibal
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Forty-Six: Damage
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Forty-Seven: Alive Again
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Forty-Eight: Good Riddance
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Forty-Nine: Eldon
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty: The Desert
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-One: Open Season
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Two: The Vroom
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Three: Cage Match
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Four: Berly
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Five: Zombie Hell
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Six: Captain Critical
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Seven: Chainsaw
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Eight: Paladin Class
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Fifty-Nine: Shadow King
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty: Pursuit
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-One: Chainsaw Ballet
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Two: Moving On
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Three: Reloading
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Four: Sundance
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Five: Speedies
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Six: Running Battle
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Seven: Rico
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Eight: Dr. Snowe
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Sixty-Nine: Revelations
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventy: The Fate of the World
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventy-One: Sunset Drive
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventy-Two: Last Stand
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventy-Three: Mall Mayhem
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventy-Four: The Dread
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventy-Five: Golden Moment
Sep 10, 2026
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Chapter Seventy-Six: Farewells
Sep 10, 2026
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Epilogue
Sep 10, 2026
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