by Jose Augusto Pena
Mateo Julian Gonzalez died the way he lived: without thinking too much about it. A bus, a kid with a red balloon, and the Buenos Aires instinct to jump in where you're not needed. Result: instant death on Corrientes Avenue and reincarnation into Arcadia, a fantasy world that was clearly not expecting him. The problem isn't the isekai itself. The problem is that Arcadia is a complete mess. There's a kingdom falling apart at the seams, a king with a missing daughter, a marquis with too much power and too little patience, and a Church of the Eternal Father that smells rotten from three leagues away. On top of that, a goddess named Selene is moving her pieces from the shadows — and it turns out that Mateo, without having asked for it, signed up for it, or fully understood why, is part of the plan. Together with Lyra, Mia, Aelindra, and a Fenrir named Otto who has more personality than 90% of the people he ever met in Buenos Aires, Mateo is going to have to learn to navigate a world where factions despise each other, gods play chess with real people, and nobody explains the rules. Level 2. No map. No manual. Welcome to Arcadia.
