YAOS is shown through the eyes of some genius athlete getting OP inside a VR, ah wait, Full Immersion game, 『F.I.O』.

Not a Hero, not a Nerd, just a driven individual paying for mistakes made, biding time until he can return to the Real World.

He isn't defined like you'd normally do it, you can pick his looks and name all on your own, just like you do in video games.

Believe it or not, keeping his looks undefined is harder than you think.

His backstory isn't expounded in detail, but it drives his choices.

Book 1 isn't about depressing sob stories but about fun and rushing forward, pursuing new horizons.

Oh, and you'll end on a cliffhanger!

Well, most serials do, so you will probably expect that without being told explicitly.

But it isn't that bad, there's a lot of reveals and more to come once this book, that is the first in a planned three-part series, is finally ready for release on amazon et al.

The published version will have:

1.) Godawful speaker tags, I hate them, they make you stop thinking and speed up editing so much. In hindsight they should have been in to begin with. But I stand by my goals proclaimed earlier. You guys should think while reading, that is the whole point of the exercise. Apply the knowledge and ideas, improve yourself, get creative!

2.) Pretty colored tables, the damned blue boxes, a lot of work, 69 in one book. Finally fixed amazon's centering issue. Can't say I liked the hours needed to debug that.

3.) The promised Mitara chapters.

4.) A cover!

5.) And lastly, updated polished versions of several chapters.

MC shares more of his past, some terrible chapters (esp. 32) finally work.

Some new scenes, minor rewrites in parts.

Text flow and other issues.

The current challenge is to maintain essential ambiguity while satisfying people wanting to know more without thinking three steps ahead. Balancing one with the other is tough.

The smut which was in remains, but the story told is not to be superseded by it. A 15+ rating for the first book is also important, not to mention, YAOS wasn't meant to contain any smut to begin with.

If the Author can turn to writing full time his output should increase, so please support YAOS #1 once it does finally release. ~Thank You~

No maps so far, that should be in, but is really hard to get done right. Again, tips are appreciated.

Update September 2017:

Writing book 2 continues, about 80k words in, unlikely I can condense what is left below 100k, so it'll be as long as it has to be.

September 2017 - Update 2: Stubbed chapters, sorry guys, currently don't have time to upload them elsewhere, polishing book 1, writing 2, takes precedence.

Book 1 is in heavy editing, too much to keep synced and continuing editing.

I'd need a site which offers JS-free rapid managing of chapters and comments.

Coding one myself or setting a premade up is out of scope until I'm done with the books.

RRL-old offered that, nuff said.

This is only here because the author believes in fairies, nobody reads this, most likely.

October 2017: Life threw yet another curveball.

Book 1 should still release 2017, but not as thoroughly edited as I wanted it to be.

But book 1 was scheduled to be edited again before book 3 anyway.

What's missing? Text flow could be better at times.

Possibly other issues, dunno, you guys have to tell me so I can fix them after release.

I'll keep writing book 2 and finalizing book 1.

To all who wait patiently, offered feedback, thanks again!