Citadel

Aleksei Osadchuk is a popular science-fiction writer known for his novels set in the LitRPG universe. We present in audio format one of his early cycles—“Through the Looking Glass.”

When you urgently need to pay for your daughter’s expensive surgery and there’s no money, you can take the most desperate, most adventurous step. And the main hero decides to earn that money in the game by choosing a miner character named Old.

But it turns out the character has a catch. His creation is the prank of a programmer who got fired. Old is full of surprises—both positive and negative. But there’s no choice. The miner must, at all costs, gain five thousand reputation points to take out a loan in the game bank. And time is running out…

Striving to reach the goal, Old ends up in the Margarine Citadel—a strange and dangerous location. Here the quests are perfect for quickly gaining experience.

Suddenly, the hero is offered to pay for the operation—if he plays on the required side. Old understands that, without wanting to, he has been drawn into the center of a struggle over influence in this world. And it’s his success in the Citadel’s quests that caused it.

The hero is faced with a difficult choice: if he makes a mistake, it’s like death. Want the details? Listen!