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Kill or Die, Book 1

by Alex Toxic

2023

Once a teenage champion of virtual gladiatorial combat, a young man now works a warehouse job with little money or respect. A chance to reclaim his success draws him into a game where defeat carries deadly consequences.

Kill or Die, Book 2

by Alex Toxic

2024

A gifted fighter confronts a game world that learns and changes with every day. Choosing between solitary advancement, military leadership, and unraveling conspiracies becomes more urgent as his next opponents rise beyond champions and monsters to gods.

Kill or Die, Book 3

by Alex Toxic

2024

Gods enter the game world and begin fighting for dominance, forcing a player to choose a powerful patroness. Offers outside the game are equally tempting, but apparent opportunities in both realities may conceal carefully prepared traps.

After nuclear destruction, the System transfers humanity to another world and assigns everyone new names and gifts. One would-be conqueror receives a potato, leaving him to discover how such an unlikely advantage might help him survive and gain power.

The Potato Lord expands his plantations, develops new skills, and learns to make System Cider. But the barriers between the System’s zones are about to fall, bringing unknown neighbors and threats into reach of his growing domain.

The Dark Healer: Book 1

by Alex Toxic

2024

An ancient necromancer wakes centuries later than planned to find his castle ruined and his clan gone. Mistaken for a healer in a world that considers necromancy a legend, he begins treating its troubles with formidable, unconventional magic.

The Dark Healer: Book 2

by Alex Toxic

2024

Enemies descend on a clan of healers, assuming its members cannot defend their property. Their attacks instead give its necromancer leader opportunities to strengthen his position and gather material for experiments, turning apparent vulnerability into a dangerous advantage.

The Dark Healer: Book 3

by Alex Toxic

2024

The Richter clan’s rising influence threatens aristocrats, criminals, and corrupt officials who want the healers destroyed. As pressure mounts in the present, Max searches the past for the people who once tried to bring about his death.

The Dark Healer: Book 4

by Alex Toxic

2024

A spreading Abomination poisons the land and transforms people and animals into monsters. As the Richter necromancers fight it, Max investigates the hidden interests opposing their efforts and seeks whoever benefits from letting the world decay.

A powerful mage awakens a thousand years after dying to protect his people and finds sorcery displaced by technology. Before teaching his descendants what true magic can do, he must discover who is determined to kill him again.

Hunting monsters to increase his strength, a returning water mage discovers creatures he created in his distant past. Their presence draws him toward buried secrets and enemies whose hidden designs may prove more dangerous than the monsters themselves.

A fallen emperor awakens in an outcast nobleman’s body, facing execution in a foreign kingdom. With his old knowledge intact, he sets out to build a stronghold and army before familiar creatures destroy another world.

As his village expands and his magic strengthens, a reborn emperor attracts dangerous enemies, including a suspicious interrogator and a vengeful countess. He must turn scattered border settlements into a united defense against the darkness approaching them.

A growing village draws spies, powerful enemies, and a desperate request for protection. Its ruler gathers defenders from neighboring settlements and ventures toward an ancient sacrificial temple, hoping to defeat the Soulless before they overwhelm the Borderlands.

Kill or Die, Book 4

by Alex Toxic

2025

Serving the Goddess of Death in a game and sitting on a corporate board in reality brings a player dangerous influence. A bounty threatens his life while an artificial intelligence consumes minds, forcing him to challenge both worlds' rules.

Lord Leo takes the System’s promise of limitless territory seriously and prepares his followers for expansion. With recruits training and allies sharpening their weapons, he sets out to claim new ground in a world full of rivals.

Lord Leo’s conquests bring wealth and a reputation that spreads beyond his territory. Keeping what he has won becomes a fresh challenge as covetous rivals, including enemies who are not human, turn their attention toward his growing domain.

Lord Leo builds a government in Sparta around the System’s currency, hoping to create a fairer society. Rival lords see his success as a threat and prepare their weapons to halt his followers’ advance across the new world.

An industrial revolution transforms Sparta as water wheels and mechanical hammers replace primitive labor. Lord Leo gains better tools and weapons for his people, but his expanding enemies ensure that increased production comes with an urgent military purpose.

The Dark Healer: Book 5

by Alex Toxic

2025

Max Richter’s necromancers create chimeras and battle the Abomination’s creatures, only to discover people profiting from the danger. Protecting the world now means confronting human adversaries as well as the mutants his clan was already hunting.

The Dark Healer: Book 6

by Alex Toxic

2025

The Richters discover an abandoned ancient fortress within a dangerous focus and establish a new headquarters there. As they train an army, keeping their true nature concealed becomes increasingly difficult, with the threat of major war drawing closer.

The Dark Healer: Book 7

by Alex Toxic

2025

An uneasy quiet settles over the capital as old legends become visible in its streets. The necromancers abandon secrecy and prepare to reveal their strength, forcing enemies, traitors, and uncertain observers to decide where their loyalties lie.

The Dark Healer: Book 8

by Alex Toxic

2025

The necromancers reclaim their city, but monsters and hostile armies soon surround it. Facing a siege that strength alone may not resolve, Max Richter joins forces with an unexpected ally whose history reaches as far back as his own.

The Dark Healer: Book 9

by Alex Toxic

2025

Max Richter and his allies establish their authority after a major victory, reshaping territories as ancient magic returns. Yet the liberation of corrupted lands has not ended their struggle, because the real enemy remains concealed beyond their immediate successes.

The Dark Healer: Book 10

by Alex Toxic

2025

As enemies construct new deceptions, Maximilian Richter awakens an ancient power and summons an ally from before the Abomination. The past intrudes on the present, raising the stakes of a struggle in which every move puts lives at risk.

The Dark Healer: Book 11

by Alex Toxic

2025

Max Richter discovers that the Abomination’s poisoned foci are portals carrying creatures from another world. Investigating the Great Princes’ hidden schemes becomes a race to uncover humanity’s true enemies before they can deliver a devastating attack.

The Dark Healer: Book 12

by Alex Toxic

2025

Max Richter pursues concealed truths through a remote magical prison, corrupted foci, and the past itself. As his clan tracks traitors, people who have hidden their crimes behind respectable appearances face a necromancer determined to uncover their secrets.

The Dark Healer: Book 13

by Alex Toxic

2025

Maximilian Richter searches for knowledge that can turn magical discoveries into technologies capable of healing the world. The Great Clans resist exposing centuries of secrets, while a powerful new weapon may change his struggle against the Abomination.

The Dark Healer: Book 14

by Alex Toxic

2025

Enemies prepare to overwhelm the Richter clan through superior numbers, underestimating the strength of its necromancers. With a great war approaching, Max and his people must use their command of death to defend the future of the living.

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An ancient mage conceals himself behind the identities of a dispossessed young noble and a fortunate diver. Balancing those lives, he uses the flexibility of water magic to evade danger and exploit weaknesses in his enemies' defenses.

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A plague spreads through the Lake Country's waters, enriching some while killing others. Sensing a hidden threat beneath the surface, a water mage investigates whether the epidemic comes from natural forces, a conspiracy, or dark magic.

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Growing public fame gives a water mage a useful disguise, but concealing his strength becomes increasingly difficult. As deadly intrigues gather around him, he prepares to expose the enemies whose conspiracies threaten to overwhelm his carefully guarded identity.

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An unexpected inheritance brings a water mage an ancestral home, servants, an apprentice, and a lake. A forgotten family secret lies nearby, and recovering what he once hid may depend on the memories preserved within the water.

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A ruler strengthens his border settlement while rival nobles threaten it with forbidden experiments and revenge. Leading an elite force to free captives, he seeks allies and an ancient artifact to protect the people his enemies consider expendable.

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As Ugryumikha flourishes, its ruler discovers secret laboratories hidden behind charitable organizations. Criminal attacks and public accusations threaten his settlement, but exposing those who trade in human lives draws him into a conspiracy extending beyond one principality.

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Swift recognition of his settlement makes a ruler suspect his enemies are setting a trap. While industrial dynasties and magical authorities resist his reforms, signs of a devastating Soulless invasion threaten everything he has begun to build.

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With assassins striking and a Soulless invasion approaching, Ugryum is denied military aid by its rulers. Its leader shelters abandoned refugees and weighs an unexpected mercenary alliance while preparing a defense against enemies on every side.

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An organized Soulless army surrounds Ugryum, guided by an ancient intelligence that spreads fear and betrayal within its walls. Denied help from the princes, the settlement’s ruler must rely on refugees, loyal soldiers, and knowledge from his former life.

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Kill or Die, Book 5

by Alex Toxic

2026

As Anima gathers a fanatical army, a player must recover seven legendary artifacts to oppose her. Meanwhile, rival corporate factions wage their own struggle outside the game, leaving him uncertain which allies he can trust in either world.

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Babylon trusts its imposing walls, powerful army, and abundant wealth to keep challengers at bay. Lord Leo brings his campaign to the city, testing whether its defenses can withstand the ambitions and tactics of the Barbarian Lord.

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Lord Leo turns toward the sea, seeking new adventures, wealth, and influence beyond familiar territory. But the vast waters conceal dangers of their own, and the System’s mischievous designs make his next expansion anything but predictable.

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The balance among the steppe’s city-states collapses, leaving rival powers ready for war. Lord Leo’s calls for friendship go unheeded, forcing him to confront a conflict that threatens to reshape the world his followers are building.

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The Dark Healer: Book 15

by Alex Toxic

2026

Max Richter’s campaign against the Abomination weakens enemies too distrustful to unite against him. Yet while victory appears closer, something beyond the spreading corruption grows restless, threatening to break free before he can finish his work.

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The Dark Healer: Book 16

by Alex Toxic

2026

A technomage deploys an army governed by flawless calculation, immune to fear and hesitation. Max Richter seeks allies whose unpredictable abilities can expose weaknesses in that perfect machinery, turning human ingenuity into a weapon against a seemingly inevitable defeat.

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The Dark Healer: Book 17

by Alex Toxic

2026

A captive princess in distant Sindh draws Maximilian Richter into a search for answers far from home. He assembles a delegation to investigate her secrets, but the unexpected presence of Gremlins threatens to disrupt an already uncertain mission.

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The Dark Healer: Book 18

by Alex Toxic

2026

The Shadows emerge as a threat far more dangerous than the raiders Max Richter believed them to be. Uncovering their deception expands his clan’s responsibilities beyond defending its city, placing the fate of the wider world in their hands.

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The Dark Healer: Book 19

by Alex Toxic

2026

Two Great Princes prepare to confront Max Richter with advantages built over centuries, from perfected mages to powerful weapons. Facing stronger and more numerous enemies, Max looks for a way to seize the initiative before their plans close around him.

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The Dark Healer: Book 20

by Alex Toxic

2026

Roland Desmond brings a thousand years of resentment to bear against Max Richter, threatening the world with his air fleet. Max refuses to yield, even as a greater danger beyond their world complicates the confrontation with his former friend.

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After surviving the Surge, the Borderlands’ defender faces a city betrayed from within and enemies targeting vulnerable heirs. Criminals and corrupt healers close ranks, forcing him to pursue the people exploiting the aftermath of war.

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A growing town challenges its ruler with thieves, spies, and murder while established trading dynasties sabotage his forges. Opposition to teaching peasant children magic and imprisoned innocents in a distant fortress add further demands to his struggle for justice.

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    Kill or Die, Book 1

    by Alex Toxic

    2023
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    2024
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    2024
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    2024
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    2024
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    2024
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    by Alex Toxic

    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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    2025
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  38. Book cover for "The Dark Healer: Book 15"

    The Dark Healer: Book 15

    by Alex Toxic

    2026
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    The Dark Healer: Book 16

    by Alex Toxic

    2026
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    2026
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    2026
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    The Dark Healer: Book 19

    by Alex Toxic

    2026
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    The Dark Healer: Book 20

    by Alex Toxic

    2026
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