Introduction: The Tale of a Sphinx is posted every Sunday at 14:00 EST.[Disclaimer]This is a significantly slower take on the usual Litrpg narratives; with the first Act (Chapters 1-15) being your more traditional Sci-fi before transitioning into the GameLit/Fantasy you all are likely more familiar with.Despite that, I hope you all come to enjoy.What price would you be willing to pay to survive a coming nuclear apocalypse? Staring down the barrel of that question, Isaac Giovanni - Director of Babylon's Fall - reaches but one conclusion, anything and everything.To save Humanity from its hubris, Isaac hatches a desperate scheme; leveraging his company's every brilliant mind and their most advanced creation - The Cradle - to carve the only path to survival he can conceive... escaping the bombs completely, to a world within the Cradles straight out of fantasy and myth, Vetem.But such a thing comes at a hidden cost, one that - as the end finally looms - becomes too great to conceal and even harder to admit. Yet, even if he is to be labeled as a Monster for it, Isaac will stop at nothing to assure that Humanity has the chance of a future where they are still alive to curse him.Though he may very well not see that day himself."For the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry," and when he himself absconds within the Cradle to put his hopes and work on the line, Isaac is forced to confront a complication he could have never considered; that he won't be the one to step into Vetem, but something else...A dangerous, inhuman, and Nameless being, born from the wealth of his life experiences and knowledge - but devoid of the memory behind them - with but a single goal:Strive, Survive, and Grow by any means necessary.Includes:- A slow-burn progression-based story involving; Levels, Skills, Traits, Magic, Abilities, and Classes, with minimal usage of the usual looooonnng Status Screens and No Stats – to avoid my dreaded enemy… Math.- A complex main character – Who goes from human to Very much not – with just as many faults as virtues, and a cast of characters with similar depths of personality.- A vibrant world filled to the brim with magic, danger, adventure, and intrigue, where navigating a city can prove to be just as threatening as a forgotten ruin....