Null Tier
by Open Set Press
LitRPG / Progression Fantasy / Sci-Fi
He tested at 0.1%. The reading was wrong.
Ten years after the Convergence cracked reality and opened rifts to parallel dimensions, Kai Nakamura mops floors at the Pacific Rift Aquarium in Neo-Seattle. He's a Null — Tier 0, no rift absorption, no powers, no future. He's mostly fine with that. Then a void rift opens in Hall C that nobody else can hear, his best friend's bootleg scanner goes off the charts, and a HUD overlay only he can see starts showing him fragments of a world that nobody else remembers existed. Kai's about to find out his Tier 0 reading was a misread by ten orders of magnitude — and the only Tier 9 in the world built his career on making sure nobody else ever climbed the ladder. Book One of the Resonance Trilogy: a funny, heartfelt LitRPG about a janitor with the wrong number on his file and the friends who help him figure out what to do about it.
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Chapter 1
# Chapter 1: Maintenance Guy
Before opening was Kai's favorite version of the aquarium.
Wet tiles, rift-light in a dozen colors: ember orange from Hall Alpha, deep blue from Hall Charlie, a green leak at the bloom rift junction. Kai pushed his mop bucket through it. The wheels squeaked, and he didn't mind.
Three fire salamanders were up at the Hall Alpha window, house cat-sized, pressing their faces to the glass. The biggest one — Frank — tilted his head and chirped, a sound like a match-strike crossed with a kitten.
[KAI] "Hey, guys." Kai stopped the bucket. "Up early again?"
Frank chirped back. Four years of these conversations, and Kai was starting to think they weren't as one-sided as everyone assumed.
Cast
Kai Nakamura
protagonist
Uncle Davi
mentor-figure
Sora Tanaka
crew-member
Bug (Marcus Webb)
crew-member