Keep Going: A LitRPG Novel

By Emmett Calder

The lowest score a human can post on the national Aptitude scan is 0.1%. They don't even give you a real number. The machine shrugs, stamps your card NULL, and the technician finds something fascinating on the ceiling while you go look into a career in mopping.

Kai Nakamura is that score. Twenty-two, graveyard shift at the aquarium, six years of being the least important person in any room. Then a hole in the world opens in the old wing at 4:50 in the morning - and Kai does the one thing you are never, under any circumstances, supposed to do near a void rift.

He touches it.

Turns out the machines were never wrong that he was off the charts. They just couldn't count high enough to find him. Now there's a System running snide commentary inside his skull, a government team tracking his heartbeat through a foot of shielding, and a line of impossible doors leading down into the dark - toward a mother he watched vanish a decade ago, who left him a note dated eight months after she was supposed to be dead. Two words, in her handwriting: keep going.

So he does - down into a world that was quietly stolen, into a memory war over what nine million people are allowed to remember, all the way to the last door, where the cost finally comes due.

KEEP GOING is a fast, funny, gut-punch LitRPG for readers of Dungeon Crawler Carl and He Who Fights with Monsters - the complete story in one volume. Do you want to keep what's yours?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9R8N8Z7
• ISBN13: 9798188197223
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"