The Code is Mightier than the Sword

A LitRPG Adventure.
The CIA recruits Jason Hawthorne to play a new virtual reality MMORPG and collect a powerful magical crystal before criminals working in the game can get it. After he succeeds, his friends are kidnapped, and he is trapped in the game.

The kidnappers want the crystal, but as he levels up, adds a powerful wolf and vampire to his party, and starts breaking the game, they want everything about him. He will face giants, demons, orcs, hookers, and international terrorists, all while trying to figure out this game he's never played before.

Eventually, he will have to decide if the friends he has made in the game are just as valuable as the ones he has in real life.