Hero's copium

Mikron, a boy from Jordan, wakes up in a new world with no explanation, no warning, and no interest in believing any of it is real. He decides it must be a simulation — some hyper-advanced, classified experiment, and he's the unwilling subject. Convinced he'll never be let out any other way, he sets out to grow strong enough to break it from the inside: facing down a magic system he doesn't understand, limitations he refuses to respect, and beings whose power feels too absurd to be anything but scripted. He treats everyone around him like background noise — ignorable, not real. It's easier that way. Safer. At least, at first. But easier doesn't mean sustainable, and the people around him have a way of becoming real whether he allows it or not. A slow-burn isekai about a man who mistakes detachment for survival — and how far denial can carry someone before the world stops letting him get away with it.