An Alchemist's Survival Guide

"An alchemist who can't cook makes a poor cult leader." Carrying the Destiny Forge with him as he crosses into another world, Horn quickly discovers that this realm is far more unhinged than he ever imagined. The lofty sun has been shattered, the gods who once arbitrated history have departed, monsters breed in the shadows, and malice seeps in from beyond the world. Cults, apprentices, curiosities, the Dreamlands, secret histories, worms, and the Hours—eight principles, seven seals, formless arts, great lores, and paths to ascension. At first, Horn only wants to stay alive—until he burns forbidden knowledge and gains multifaceted teachings, transforms a flesh altar into a bio-energy engine, cooks finger-venom into toxin immunity, and reforges a ruined castle into a war colossus. As the ancients said: "Swallow a golden elixir and master your own fate." Horn figures alchemy isn't so different. Seizing the radiant metal before him, the young man swallows it whole and refines it in an instant. "I shall go forth in the form of the Philosopher's Stone!"