A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teenager from the Denver suburbs. She woke up in a magical alternate dimension inhabited by monsters and governed by a mysterious System — where people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens. Grappling with the System is only the beginning. The Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions, and if they find out about Alice, they will stop at nothing to extract the secrets of her world by force.

Transported from Earth to the world of Luliv, Alice Verianna has found a patron researcher and gained admittance to magic school, where she studies everything from self-defense to monster biology. But the more she advances, the more she suspects something is deeply wrong with the System itself. In the shadows, the Society of Starry Eyes has been conducting experiments with broken mana and human beings — to horrifying results. With the Society growing bolder and the land on the precipice of disaster, Alice must uncover the truth before it's too late.

Alice Verianna's scientific exploration of Luliv's magical System has yielded fascinating results — but now the System is failing. Monster attacks grow deadlier, people go mad, and crises pile up faster than she can address them. The key to repairing the world lies in elements scattered throughout the Shil Confederacy. Alice and her companions must travel the realm to complete her research in time. Even if they survive the journey, there's no guarantee they'll arrive before everything she cares about collapses.