Warlord Era: The Regional War

Koh Jian Hao built something impossible in the Free Port — a neutral zone where commerce outlasted conquest. Now the warlords outside his walls have decided it's their problem to solve. When the System Architect Consortium sends an operative to audit the Mumbai Node and an Indonesian general deploys an orbital bombardment platform over the Straits, Jian Hao faces enemies who don't negotiate. They build. They position. They wait. And when they move, they move at scale. His father's legacy — the Backdoor Access, the ability to step outside the System's timeline for a stolen 47 seconds — was never meant for war. But war doesn't care what an ability was meant for. As the Regional War engulfs Southeast Asia and the Node corruption spreads from Mumbai to Lagos, Jian Hao learns that the System isn't just broken — it was designed to be. And the Consortium has been watching the cracks since before the Integration began. THE REGIONAL WAR is the second book in The Warlord Era, a LitRPG progression fantasy about what happens when the cheat code is information and the final boss is the rules themselves.