I love Charles Dean’s War Aeturnus series and was excited to check out his newest creation in the Heroic Villain. The story is solid and the work is captivating as most of his writing is, but I was disappointed that the story line and several plot elements were pretty clearly ripped off from other LitRPG sagas like The Land by Aleron Kong and Awaken Online by Travis Bagwell. I have read each of those books multiple times and I swear that there are section of Heroic Villain taken directly from those works. Pretty disappointing considering previous writing by Charles Dean. Maybe I’m wrong but I really dont think I am