After surviving an angry peasant mob, Oag would gladly spend the rest of his life hiding in his liege lord’s library. He’s too inept to marry well or to make a name for himself as a knight.
But Oag’s bookish discovery of magic thrusts him into the crux of a brutal war between his medieval continent and an invading empire ruled by wizards with a rigid system of magic. Oag doesn’t know what stats and points are, but he’s hyperaware that princesses are begging for his help and promising him entire kingdoms. He’ll just have to push aside his feelings for the beautiful commoner who keeps saving his life and insisting that she’s a man in a woman’s body.
Entanglements aside, Oag really wants a tutor so he can level up his spellcraft. Too bad the foreign wizards keep inexplicably trying to murder him. Oag has no choice but to rely on terrifying peasant mobs.
The only way he’ll protect his people is by empowering his own warriors with magic, and always by learning more.
When crafting your own magic system means adventurers want to date you and wizards want to kill you.
What To Expect:
- Hero invents his own magic system
- Single POV
- LitRPG and D&D satire
- Anti-formulaic
- Power progression
- Magic-fueled shenanigans
Requisite Warnings:
This work of fiction has a diverse cast of characters in an environment where misogyny and transphobia are normalized. Characters’ views do not reflect the author’s views.
The author does not use genAI or LLMs or crowdsourcing for writing, editing, or outlining, and will never outsource the fun parts of storytelling. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. No part of this book may be used or repurposed for training technologies or machine learning systems.
This edition is a rough draft preview/work in progress intended only for a web serial readership or for friends and beta readers. If you are seeing this text in a purchased ebook or print book that purports to be written by someone other than Abby Goldsmith, please report it as plagiarism.
I’ve completed one epic series in my life, but they are massive projects, and I expect to revise and retcon chapters of this one. Feedback is always welcome.
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