Striking Air (Elements Online, #1)

Elements Online is a virtual reality game that promised to be more real than life itself. Delivering on this unwavering pledge, they included death. If a player perishes in the game, their body dies in real life. There is no other escape for 124, 105 players who entered without this knowledge, unless they beat the Corruption.

Ella Swan entered the game trying to escape her family's curse; instead, she is in greater danger. Monsters, storms, and cataclysmic events await in dark dungeons and mysterious trials. As a minor Mage, Ella blends in until she unlocks her true potential as the Element of Air. Now, she must solve three trials and open the doorway to the final boss. If she doesn't … no one can proceed. Only the Element of Air has the ability to press forward on Caeli.

Guardians are assigned to protect her as an aiding game mechanic. However, the love they feel for her, is it genuine or generated? The Lord of the benevolent guild, Alexander Jones, keeps her too safe. While the Lord of the malevolent guild, Angel Vorona, plunges her into peril. Unsure of her feelings, Ella has more questions than answers. She must embrace the power within herself to save the world of Caeli or be consumed by the growing Corruption, thereby trapping any survivors for eternity.