
by Blenderbeetle
Did you try turning your System off and on again? Ember is burning. The System isn’t just powerless to stop it, it’s holding the matches. With each new System glitch, the world descends further into chaos, and the most recent failure is dragging Earth into the fray. Enter Rayna: an introverted bookworm who doesn’t even like video games. But when her only friend is kidnapped, Rayna follows her to Ember without a second thought. Now she is in way over her head, desperate to save her friend and willing to do anything she needs to in order to get both of them back home alive. If she can save the other ten million isekaied humans in the process, that’s just a bonus. Navigating deadly challenges, an unexpected race change, and System glitches that feel way too personal, Rayna will do whatever it takes to get her and her friend back to Earth in one piece. What to expect: - Glitchy System - Non-Human MC - Chaos Gremlin MC - Large Cast, Multi-POV - Humans are Space Orcs Note: This is a heavily-edited rerelease of the fiction "The Stubborn Light of a Dying Flame". The first fifteen chapters or so remain largely the same, but things start to diverge starting from the time when Lord and Lady Emery enter the story.
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| 1 | Chapter 1: Nothin' Suspicious About an Empty Warehouse | 0 |
| 2 | Chapter 2: This Is Why God Invented Follow-Up Questions | 0 |
| 3 | Chapter 3: When I Get My Hands on That Curly-Haired Son-of-a—! | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 4: Bullshit and Bedtime Stories | 0 |
| 5 | Chapter 5: A Bit of a Rocky Start | 0 |
| 6 | Chapter 6: Never Leave Home Without a Clipboard | 0 |
| 7 | Chapter 7: I May Have Picked the Wrong Portal... | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 8: I Throw a Dagger at a Deer-Lady | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 9: The Importance of Market Research | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 10: Always Read the Fine Print | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 11: A Magical E-Reader | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 12: Stowaway | 0 |
| 13 | Chapter 13: A Council of One | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 14: Tutorial, Take Two! | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 15: Murphy's Law Strikes Again | 0 |
| 16 | Chapter 16: The System's Customer Service Sucks | 0 |
| 17 | Chapter 17: A Relaxing Stroll Through a Monster-Infested Forest | 0 |
| 18 | Chapter 18: Too Stubborn to Die | 0 |
| 19 | Chapter 19: Isn't This Low-Key Kidnapping? | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 20: One Hell of an Infestation | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 21: Lord Emery Practices Pitching | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 22: Lord Emery's Better Half | 0 |
| 23 | Chapter 23: Monster Meat | 0 |
| 24 | Chapter 24: The Temple of Eldar Thinks I'm a Saint | 0 |
| 25 | Chapter 25: Okay, This is Definitely Kidnapping... | 0 |
| 26 | Chapter 26: Amidst the Mounds of Papers | 0 |
| 27 | Chapter 27: Emberians and Their Superstitions | — |
| 28 | Chapter 28: Rolling Back the Drivers | — |
| 29 | Chapter 29: So, That's What an Arachne Looks Like... | — |
| 30 | Chapter 30: Why Is This Tree So Clingy?! | — |
| 31 | Chapter 31: A Forest, a Dungeon and a Choice | — |
| 32 | Chapter 32: Never Sleep In Dungeons | — |
| 33 | Chapter 33: Sore Loser | — |
| 34 | Chapter 34: Gambling in a Dungeon | — |
| 35 | Chapter 35: Core Status: Filtering... | — |
| 36 | Chapter 36: Can't Wyrm My Way Out of This One | — |
| 37 | Chapter 37: A Well-Deserved Nap | — |
| 38 | Chapter 38: No One Told Me Ascension Had Prerequisites! | — |