How to Succeed in Monster Farming

Nick was just your average overworked accountant — until he got isekai'd and then immediately rejected for lacking hero potential. Instead of a prophecy or a sword, he's given a rundown farm in a cursed wasteland where seventeen previous owners died horribly. With mysterious strength, an eye for optimization, and a knack for flipping curses into perks, Nick starts rebuilding Blackthorn Farm from the ground up — monster livestock, magical crops, and an eclectic crew including a former elven slave turned manager, killer birds, and a shape-shifting dragon named Petunia. As his power grows, he draws attention from nobles, mages, and forces that might not be entirely mortal.

Six months after the Magerium Council declared him insufficient and dumped him on a cursed farm, Nick is running the most revolutionary agricultural operation in the known world. His farm produces food that moves people to tears, his workers treat their employment contracts as spiritual callings, and he's accidentally founded a religion based on proper safety protocols. The problem isn't his success — it's that everyone keeps mistaking his practical farming techniques for cosmic intervention. Merchant guilds are declaring economic warfare, religious extremists are organizing crusades, and now a fanatical lord has arrived with fifteen hundred troops and a manifested god.

Nick wanted peace — a quiet farm, a thriving crew, and a future with Syllia. But when dimensional contagion strikes and infects her and everyone who has lived too close to his cursed reality, peace dies screaming. With only forty-seven days before Syllia dies, Nick must race across collapsing worlds to gather the five components of a Reality Anchor — a mythical cure said to stabilize existence itself. As dimensions rot and time unravels, Nick's desperate quest will decide not only Syllia's fate, but whether reality itself can survive.