Proving Grounds

Annals of the Runeguard, Book 1 (The Annals of the Runeguard)

By: Tom Elliot

Narrated by: Giancarlo Herrera, Hannah Schooner

A heroic epic of one man and his fight for survival.

Dace Tolman’s life has been overturned. One moment he was in his apartment and the next, he and the rest of humanity find themselves in a strange world of monsters and magic.

A new world.

There is nothing benign about mankind’s new home. The Proving Grounds is a world seemingly designed to enhance those worthy of its gifts—and to kill off the rest. Every day is a struggle against the System and its creatures. Can Dace survive its challenges?

Endless opportunities for advancement and power.

Join Dace on his epic journey as he is forced to deal not only with the System, but humanity’s own internal conflicts.

The start of an exciting new epic portal fantasy!

This is a story not only of monsters and dungeons, but also of factional struggles, guild politics, and human foibles.

©2024 Tom Elliot (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

a unique take of how the system took over earth

Everytime the system speaks you have to turn down the volume to avoid blowing out your eardrums

Please Hannah turn your mic down a bit.

overall I am invested I wanna hear more, Im already impressed by the grand game and am excited to see this guy go to war against the empire utilizing the system against them after bringing humanity into it in the first place.

it's ok

storyline's okay main character is a whiny little bitch goes off half cocked All the sudden we're in a modern day world and all of a sudden people are speaking like they're in the old world

Very impressive book.

Everything i like from the grand game and more. A really good start to a series, looking foward to seeing how the series goes from here.

Female system voice is too loud and obnoxious

Overall pretty good. Likable mc, good side chars, interesting world. I’m not a fan of the female narrators voice, but it’s not terrible except for the system voice