Architect of Ruin: Do Not Disturb the Darkness

Leo Vance has a system. After twelve years of teaching fifth grade, he has refined it to an art form: maintain visual contact, anticipate chaos, and deploy snacks as a tactical distraction. It has served him well through countless field trips, parent-teacher conferences, and one memorable incident involving a classroom hamster and a fire extinguisher. It does not, however, cover being sucked through a dimensional vortex into a brutal, System-governed fantasy world with five of his students. Vaelia is not a kind place. The System that governs it is biased, cruel, and deeply invested in keeping the powerful powerful and the weak terrified. When it offers Leo a class, it does not offer him something safe. It offers him the Nightmare Weaver — a Corrupted class built on fear, shadow, and the slow erosion of sanity. Leo accepts it. Because the alternative is watching his students die. Now, armed with a wolf skull mask, a rapidly deteriorating grip on his mental health, and twelve years of classroom management experience, Leo Vance must protect his students, build a haven in the darkest forest in the known world, and convince an entire continent that the terrifying Architect of Ruin is absolutely not a fourth-grade teacher from New Jersey. He has a system. It just needs some adjustments. [LitRPG | Dark Fantasy | Found Family | Humor | Isekai | System | Progression] If you want to read ahead, support the story, and get early access to the revised edition, you can find The Architect of Ruin chapters on Patreon here: Andrew Choi | Galactic HOA & Architect of Ruin. Patreon support helps keep the releases coming and gives readers access to advance chapters before they reach Royal Road.