Berth of Collision
A LitRPG Portal Progression NovelBy Cassian Rowe
Length6h 35m
About this audiobook
Mara Voss has flown a hundred manual berthings like this one. The ore hauler Marrow Wind hangs above a resource moon with its cargo aperture irising open, and Mara is easing her tug, the Bitter Lullaby, in by the numbers, because a licensed human pilot earns the XP an automated tug never will, and the System does not accept excuses for a missed payment.
At a hundred and twenty meters the guide lights stutter out of sequence. A second transponder, foreign and unregistered, is calling from inside the hold. The aperture dilates far past its rated size, and something that is not gravity drags her in.
She wakes under a rust-orange sky on a plain of fused hull plating, among towers of ships welded together at impossible angles and canals of something that moves like mercury. She has heard of places like this only in port-bar ghost stories: a Dock-Continent. Her tug is gone, and a Quay-Warden cutter is running its searchlight along the quays. All she has is her scuffed titanium docking stick, which can now bend the local gravity just enough to shift a bollard, and a System pane she cannot blink away. Tugboat class, locked. Level 1. Then the bill: "47 XP billed to Pilot Voss, Mara. Payment due within one cycle." She has maybe twelve.
The System never bills for accidents, only for collisions. Mara is beginning to suspect that whoever was hiding in that cargo hold made sure she would have one.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length6 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
18System Shock
2The Aperture
19Undercanal
3First Berth
20Battleship Berth
4Black-Market Berth
21The Final Berth
5Sweep
22Aftermath
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6Collision Yield
23New Orders
7The Herding Pattern
24Red Buoys
8Dockmaster's Ledger
25Hark's Gambit
9Rogue Warden
26The System's Offer
10Fleet of Hulls
27Sovereign Fleet
11The Collapsing Berth
28The New Berth
12Vey's Choice
29Gateway
13Central Berth
30Allies and Enemies
14Chain Reaction
31Unlicensed Quay-Warden
15Evacuation
32About the author
16Krell's Offer
33Series hook
17The Execution Berth
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