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The Green Woods

Hidden Class: Pacifist, Book 1

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The Green Woods

By: Cassio Ferreira
Narrated by: Steve Corona
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Mutant animals. Special quests. Legendary skills.

Roth used to be a successful gamer with a short fuse and a nasty temper. All it took to send him on a rampage was to look at him funny.

When his rage fits cost him his friends, job, family, and freedom, he realizes the need to change. After four years in prison, he leaves as a better and more peaceful person. But sins have a way of catching up with a man. Those who were hurt by Roth's rampages have planned a terrible revenge.

When Roth finds himself locked up inside the new MMORPG, AstroTerra, there seems to be no way out, especially because Roth refuses to hurt anyone or anything inside the game.

The Green Woods is book one in Hidden Class: Pacifist, a new series featuring a protagonist who overcomes his anger management issues to become the most peaceful man on Earth. Join Roth on an epic journey through a unique blend of gamelit, cyberpunk, science fiction, and fantasy elements. This wholesome LitRPG story contains no sexual content, profanity, gore, or harem.

©2023 Cássio Ferreira (P)2024 Podium Audio Christian Fiction Cyberpunk Epic Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Funny LitRPG
Unique Premise • Engaging Storytelling • Refreshing Approach • Fascinating World • Character Growth
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One of the best book series I’ve listen to or read the diversity in the story is the best I’ve ever come across wish the game was real so I could play it
Can’t wait to continue with the rest of the series to see how it develops

Awesome story

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Refreshing take on a LitRPG! Great character and interesting world! Definitely going to read the 2nd.

It starts a tiny bit slow but give it a minute and you won’t regret it!

Refreshing!

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Thank you for not having a harem, coming of age, overly sexual content. It is a fresh air and not to deal with the sister wife or teenage content that some of the other authors think is viable storytelling.

The story the author wove is interesting and fun. I like the fact that the MC is a violent man who chooses to convert to a pacifist. It provides some quite funny area where he is fighting himself and other players. Love the foxes and the mice.

Yeah a true story

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The performance is a bit bland. But, it was a great story. The main character Roth is really good and so are the side characters beside him. The villain, Loki, is an irredeemable demon of a man and a part of me hates that I love his writing.

Good characters. Both protagonists and villains

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I loved everything about this book and our narrator did an excellent job. Highly recommend this book.

I found this nearly impossible to put down I was so engrossed. What an unusual storyline and portrayed in such an interesting way. Esp since I am an avid gamer I would say if this video game existed Id be playing it, and having such an unusual class that the character doesn't even get to discover during this book just makes me want to get the next one. In fact I grabbed the next two books just so when I finish this one I could move on to the next. Also the intricate stories making the whole book one big tapestry in and of itself was brilliant.

Well done, I look forward to more.

Excellent story!

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This surprised me with how good it was. it was a nice change of pace from most books in the genre.

Nice new take

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As the LitRPG subgenre matures, authors are finding increasingly innovative approaches to the task of bringing the mechanics of role-playing games to life in novel form. The Green Woods by Cassio Ferreira may be the most unique effort yet. RPGs and the books that explore them are almost universally based around combat, but Ferreira has come up with a character who will do anything not to fight. He is, for all intents and purposes, a pacifist—but he wasn't always that way and therein lies many of his problems.

Roth used to be The Slayer—a violent bully who made his living through immersive role-playing games. The game world allowed him to legally do all the horrible stuff to people that he couldn't get away with in real life. But his temper was so bad, that when another player got the better of him in a transaction in the game, he found the player in real life and beat him within an inch of his life. He then went to jail where he was effectively born again through anger management classes—a philosophy that he has genuinely embraced. He is sorry for his past misdeeds and really wants to start over—but not everyone from his past life is ready to let go of their hatred for him.

Fresh out of prison, Roth is set up by friends working for the man he nearly beat to death. He is locked into a game, unable to log out, and his pain receptors are locked on so that he feels things in the game as if they were really happening to him. Then his old gang catches him as he is generated into the game and murder him 1000 times. Think about that number. 1000 times. And Roth doesn't even try to fight back. He forgives them and tells them he deserves it. (And if that isn't proof he has changed, I don't know what could be.)

However, it turns out that getting killed a thousand times without fighting back triggers a hidden title in the game—Martyr—and that sets Roth on a path that may just be unique in LitRPGs. He resolves to not hurt anyone (including monsters) and to help everyone he can who is being hurt. At the same time, he is going to strive to become one of the top ten players as he has figured out that that contains a loophole which he thinks will permit him to escape the game and go check on his mother to make certain she is alright. (The guy he beat up is not just taking out his vengeance on Roth but upon just about everyone in his past life.)

This really makes for an exciting experience. Roth begins to discover that there is a richness to the game that he had missed when he was dominated by a hack-and-slash attitude. And yet, everyone else in the game continues to think it's about killing monsters. When Roth tries to stop them from hurting foxes and mice and other creatures, they not only think he is crazy—they kill him as well. But Roth can’t stop trying to protect life and it produces interesting and unanticipated consequences.

This is a great first book in a series.

A Unique Approach to LitRPGs

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I enjoyed listening to this, an escape from the typical kill-kill-kill in most LitRPG stories. The narration was a little off, and I did not like the voice of the MC, but I will likely continue with the series to see where it leads.

Interesting Plot

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very chill but the main character comes off as dopey not sure if that was intentional. if you are looking for a more sedate LitRPG it is worth the listen.

good book but kind of slow

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Honestly, the author makes it work. I bought this book on a whim expecting it to be a DNF. I did finish the book and I liked it enough to consider buying the next one.

Infinite respawning pacifist, but there’s a deeper story

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