The day Demir and Aris entered Realmforge, the impossible happened "HUDs" died, portals sealed, leveling froze, and death became permanent. Four years later the “game” is a cage. Demir fights to keep a ragged survivor camp alive. Aris struggles on a remote island, apprenticed to a healer while...

Every night, Marcus Chen falls asleep in modern day Chicago and wakes up in a medieval world on the verge of ruin. The story is a fantasy for its native characters, but Marcus's presence turns it into science fiction. He’s an ordinary villager fighting for survival against famine and war. But ...