Today, I’m on the tour for Ascension. I am hosting an exclusive extract of what sounds like an intriguing book! I just need time to read it! I do hope this gives you a flavour of Ascension and just hope at least one person will go and buy a copy! Thanks to ZooLoo’s Book Tours for allowing me to join in the tour for this book. Now for the extract.
The voice gained intensity as the years dragged on, comforting him that he would get his revenge in due course. Though Timur was unable to see anything in the darkness, he could feel the presence of the Leviathan as if it were a man standing before him. Nearly three decades had passed before his depression turned into anger and his anger mounted into rage. A sickly green light emanated from his eyes, and he could make out strange symbols covering every wall.
“What are these markings?” he asked the darkness.
“Thou art entrapped by these spells of binding.” the dark voice spoke. “These ancient symbols doth prevent thee from developing thine divine powers and doth prevent thee from escaping this dungeon.”
“What powers?”
“Thou art a Seraph,” the Leviathan explained. “It hast been prophesied that thou shalt take thy place as the rightful heir to the throne of Atlantis. During thy reign, Death and Hell shall follow thee as a fourth part of the earth shall be destroyed with hunger, famine, and with sword.”
“But how will I get out of here?”
“First, ye must yield thy soul up unto me and become my servant.”
“I’ll do no such thing,” Timur huffed. “I’ve got my own empire to redeem.”
A pair of burning red eyes lit up the chamber. “Yes, you shall!”
The ground began to shake violently. Timur staggered and fell as several stalagmites crashed down, crushing him alive. The red glow disappeared, and Timur was left alone in the darkness of the cavern. He screamed out in pain for days, but the Leviathan would not heed his cries.
Several weeks of agony passed before the Leviathan finally returned. Timur was weak yet unable to succumb to death. The Leviathan offered freedom in exchange for yielding up his soul for consumption. Timur accepted the offer in desperation, and watched the white glow of his spirit exit his body and erupt in flames. He felt a part of him die inside as the Leviathan inhaled the thick smoke emitting from Timur’s corrupted soul.
The ground shook again, causing the walls of the cave to crumble around him. At first Timur thought he had been betrayed, but then he felt a warmth growing inside. The pains he had endured over the past few weeks subsided, and he felt himself growing stronger. The green glow of his eyes burned brighter, and his anger blazed into rage. When his fury overtook him, an unknown power began to seep from his bones. The sickly green light radiated from his eyes as an aura of power surrounded him. In an outburst of inhuman rage, all the rubble within a fifty-foot radius incinerated into ash.
“I have freed thee from thy spells of binding,” the Leviathan spoke. “Now go. Seek thy revenge!”
Attorney by day, gamer by night. After a heart-crushing rejection, Allan Young blows off his responsibilities and escapes reality into the virtual world Conquest until his HUD starts glitching out. He wakes up the next morning to find that his neurological implant has fried yet again, and he begrudgingly decides to go to the office before he gets fired.
Allan has banked his entire career on one particular securities contract, but when he unexpectedly meets up with his client one fateful morning his entire world comes crashing down around him. He survives an assassination attempt due to unnatural means when a halo of protection surrounds him, and his attacker evolves into a nightmarish creature that could only be described as something out of Conquest.
When he wakes up from what he has justified to himself as a crazy dream, he meets a vagrant who claims to have seen visions and prophecies about him. But before he can get a grasp on what’s truly happening, he transports through a portal into a world patterned after the game but has no access to his HUD nor his inventory.
Can he survive on his wits alone?
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Author Bio
Most of his friends from High School still don’t even know his first name. Known only as either “Mulder” or “Agent”, there was an unforgettable moment when a girl he was dating expressed her confusion when a friend approached him and called him “Richard”. The ongoing joke was “Hey Mulder, where’s Scully?” Ironically he later married a redhead…
R.M. Mulder began querying agents for his Conquest Saga back in January 2016. He then received some inspirational feedback from one of the editors involved in a query contest that had stated in part, “Honestly? Everything about this screams ‘Blockbuster self-pub!!’ Writing is sharp and commercial. Author has a plan. Go be Hugh Howey. I don’t think querying is gonna go your way, and you’ve got big vision.” Mulder ran with this inspiration, and has since become an Amazon Bestselling Author.
He also has a Kickstarter campaign for Book 3 – Revelation – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rmmulder/revelation-gamelit
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