3001 Paths to Death - A Lite litRPG Looper

One law reigns supreme: Death is power. I was a low-ranking water cultivator who'd given up on the path of power and pretty much life. To get by, I sold maps with shady details. My customers hated them. Lana loved them. She broke me out of my cocoon and introduced me to a new life of adventuring.  On a mission to the Bloodwoods, the "Benevolent Emperor" impaled me on a stake. In a cruel twist of fate, I watched my squad die repeatedly until a squid-faced monster freed me. Calamari needed me to save his people. I had other plans. I will cultivate the ocean's depths to free my friends from Death's cold hands. After all, I had nothing to lose; my heart died with my squad.  If I lived, so could they… so could she