"Not for the sake of the game" is a fantasy novel from the “Fireworld” series by Andrey Vasiliev, in the genre of action fantasy, LitRPG.
Being a journalist means you’re always ready for the fact that your fate may take you anywhere. That’s exactly what happened to a reporter named Khariton Nikiforov—he was sent into an online game called “Fireworld” to see what’s what firsthand and write about the cycle of articles for a weekly.
Only games are such a thing… Getting into them is much easier than getting out afterward…