Code and Crown

The Update is complete. Now, the System must survive the Crash.

Nia von Eisenwald has rewritten the rules of magic, crushed rebellions, and optimized an Empire from the ground up. She is no longer just a Baroness or a Commander; she is the Empress, the Admin with root access to the fate of the world.

But the new operating system has a critical vulnerability.

While the war against the usurper Cassian rages on the frontiers, Nia faces an internal runtime error she cannot debug: she is pregnant. A new user is trying to log in, draining her resources and compromising her physical firewall just as the ultimate threat arrives.

The Archmage Malakor has stopped watching from the shadows. He has launched a full-scale invasion of "Void Logic"-glitch-monsters that defy physics and delete reality. To fight them, Nia must push her coding magic to the breaking point, turning the laws of nature into weapons and enforcing physics on creatures that don't exist.

Trapped between the crushing responsibilities of the Crown and the biological imperatives of motherhood, Nia must make the hardest calculation of her life. To save the future, she may have to delete herself.

The enemy is infinite. The odds are zero. And the server is about to melt down.

Code and Crown: New Processes is the eighth volume in the best-selling Progression Fantasy series. Witness the ultimate stress test as the System Administrator defends her legacy against the Blue Screen of Death.