Wholesale Like Clockwork

A city under siege, a hero overwhelmed—the mysterious game governing the world is only getting wilder in the second book of this thrilling LitRPG adventure. Nate Mercer—better known as Loophole—has outlived the chaos of Infinite Ascension’s Phase One, becoming something greater than a mere street-level fighter. Armed with a complex skill set and pure luck, he’s now diving deeper into the game to expose and destroy one of the insidious developers trying to control it. But reality has never been so fractured. Superpowers abound, dictated by an insane AI and a megalomaniacal tech Augment who calls himself the Clockwork Tyrant. Not only has he laid siege to New York with a robotic army; he’s also imprisoned hundreds of thousands of hostages in bunkers throughout the city. And with the stronger, more experienced Augments already eliminated, it’s up to Loophole and his new team to stop him. Setting up a base in Central Park, they form Fortune’s Cadence, an invaluable alliance including a bri...