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  • Alpha

  • Chaos Awakens
  • By: Aleron Kong
  • Narrated by: Pavi Proczko
  • Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (1,303 ratings)

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Alpha

By: Aleron Kong
Narrated by: Pavi Proczko
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Publisher's summary

The Earth barely survived the Third World War.

It isn’t ready for the War of the Worlds.

A beam of pure Chaos has descended on the Earth connecting it to the Labyrinth Universe.

Monsters will spawn, heroes will level and nations will fall.

Chaos will Awaken!

From the mind of Aleron Kong, the Father of American LitRPG, comes his tenth book!

With over 1,000,000 books sold, a Wall Street Journal Best Seller and the series voted one of the Top 100 of ALL TIME by Audible.com, you can’t go wrong!

Experience a brand new magical system combining LitRPG leveling and Wuxia cultivation in a seamless world that always pushes the characters you love and hate to the edges of the universe and their sanity.

Not everyone will survive when Chaos Awakens!

©2024 Aleron Kong (P)2024 Aleron Kong

Welcome to Aleron Kong Universe

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About the Creator

Aleron Kong is an African-American physician turned WSJ best-selling author. His comedic fantasy opera, The Land, has eight novels and a main character that is an everyday kind of guy. The series has over 100,000 five-star reviews and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Chosen as Audible’s Customer Favorite of the Year, it has wide appeal whether you are reading or listening. The author is also extremely proud of his fandom, which has raised over $100,000 for various charities over the past few years. Twenty-seven of his fans have also gotten tattoos of his artwork, and two babies have been named after his characters. His fans are united by the words, "Through Service, Ascendance. Through Dedication, Transcendence."
WSJ Best-seller
Audible's Customer Favorite of the Year
For more information, www.LitRPG.com

About the Performer

Pavi Proczko came to narrate audiobooks through a career in stage and music. He’s performed all over his native city, Chicago, in theater (Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Paramount Theater), in TV ( Chicago Fire), in Opera (Chicago Opera Vanguard), and even in professional Dungeons and Dragons campaigns (Rough Magic RPG). Pavi also writes music and fiction, but always comes back breathing life into stories through performance. Check out his other work on Audible.com. Pavi and his husband, Colin, host a story review podcast, 2 Grooms 1 Plot.

Sample clips from Alpha: Chaos Awakens

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Time and Fate themselves became untethered from the Earth.
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He trod on the lives of others to reach greater heights.
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Chapter 17
I’m going to kill you.
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  • Chapter 1
  • Time and Fate themselves became untethered from the Earth.
  • Chapter 6
  • He trod on the lives of others to reach greater heights.
  • Chapter 17
  • I’m going to kill you.

Dear Listener,

What is the best part of being an author?
"Becoming an author has been an insane ride. When I was working 130+ hours a week as a resident, it never occurred to me that I would ever devote myself to anything other than medicine. However, expressing my creativity while connecting with amazing people around the world has turned out to be the greatest joy of my life. I find resonance in breathing life into characters, so much so that they begin to feel like real people to me. When I wrote my first book, I never expected anyone to ever read it. To my surprise and delight, through my writing, I have found a meaning in my own life and a connection to so many wonderful men and women around the world. I'm the luckiest guy I know. "– Aleron Kong, writer of Alpha

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Another great read and sytem.

After waiting years for another book I have to say I am not disappointed. This new world while sharing common elements with its sibling series is new take on common tropes. I can't wait to read more.

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Overall I Like It

This definitely has the Kong feel. If you like his other books you will probably like this. If you haven’t tried his other books, try them first they are a bit better as an introduction to his style.

Pros: It’s a new Aleron Kong book! Been waiting awhile for this.
Love the universe it happens in. Despite the inherent problems I would gladly move there.
Definite power fantasy. If you want to see a total bad ass kicking butt this is obviously heading in that direction.
Mostly doesn’t rely MC stupidity, mostly.

Cons: It is another new series and not part of either the Land or God’s eye series.

There isn’t much story. There is a ton of world building and power-ups but it feels more like an episode of a show than a first novel.

The exception being the intro and first challenge which just felt like they dragged on. It feels like a prologue that got out of hand.

Lastly, the MC is a total a Gary Stu, just like the MC of The Land. This is a stylized Aleron in physical description and backstory with some military stuff added.

Also, if you’re a blonde haired and blue-eyed person that might get offended at 20 versions of talking trash about the Aryan look, you might want to give this a pass.

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Absolutely fantastic

It's been a while since I we've been able to enjoy a new book by Dr. Kong but he's clearly still got it. But alas like a junkie who has fallen off the wagon I'm just sitting here now scratching my arm needing more

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Chaos Awakens and DEMANDS you bend the knee or ear

The master of American Literary Role Playing Game genre has done it again! I'm a big fan of Aleron Kong. The AKU is expanded further with this latest book that follows the MC Fin on his journey of awakening. Kong's books are very well written, and Kong commonly uses his IRL knowledge of the medial field to inform his characters and their actions. This creates a uniquely beautiful blend of fantasy, video games and real life knowledge creating a truly in-depth experience for the reader.

Kong's choice of narrators never disappoint, and Pavi Proczko is no exception. Alpha is captivating, more raw and a bit darker than past books and this narrator does an exceptional job of capturing all the action and grit, while simultaneously paying attention to the nuance required.

I'm so excited to continue to explore the AKU and hope you will join us.
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Fantastic magic system

Aleron is a magic theory geek! He uses a few names from other systems like “mana threads” but it’s unique enough to be exciting. The main character is a bad ass already

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Not as good as previous stories

Not sure if it the reader or the story but I was disappointed. Didn’t feel the story was well written it felt disjointed.

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i like the change of pace and the explanations of what happened to earth after the wave. Fun to see this side of the story.

Nothing really, so minimum works, ahh have to write some more Word to make it happen

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very strong start to an "in universe" series

very good character building, solid all around. very impressed and was already itching for a sequel. GNOMES RULE!

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Another hit!

All I can say is I loved it!! Highly recommend to anyone that is into these type of books.

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Same Universe Different Story

First let me say as someone who absolutely loves The Land and thank Aleron for introducing me to LITRPG. This book explored some of the newer ideas that I see in the genre using cultivation and other magic systems than his previous books. However, the book keeps his classic Kong charm with random notes of pop culture & sarcasm. It perfectly blends the hilarious nature of The Land & the brutality introduced in God's Eye. It also explores that time frame from when Richter is introduced to The Land and before Remington is taken into God's Eye. The only gripe that I have is the ending felt very abrupt and left me dying for more information, but I will trust the process and wait for more from the esteemed Dr. Kong.

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