Code and Crown

The System is Failing. The Empress has Logged In.

Nia von Eisenwald is no longer a glitch in the world of Aethelgard. She is its last line of defense.

As the Void Ships of the Archmage Malakor descend upon the Capital, the sky turns to ink and reality itself begins to fragment. The Archmage's forces are not just soldiers; they are errors in the source code of the universe, and they are here to delete everything Nia has built.

When the Emperor falls in a final, tragic stand, the weight of a dying empire shifts to Nia's shoulders. At nineteen, she is crowned Empress amidst a city in flames. But the crown is a heavy burden in a world where the sun has been extinguished and the firewall is failing.

Fleeing the fallen Capital with a convoy of millions, Nia must lead an exodus to her ancestral home of Eisenwald. From the mechanical ghosts of the City of Echoes to the bottomless depths of the Chasm of Tears, she must use every bit of her modern logic to save a world that no longer makes sense.

The final partition is coming. Malakor is mocking the Empress of Ashes, but he has forgotten one thing:

You can't delete the user with root access.

Code and Crown: Book 10 - The Empress

Code and Crown: The Empress is the tenth volume in the Progression Fantasy series. Witness the rise of the Administrator to the Throne as Nia executes the ultimate survival protocol to save a dying world.