About this audiobook

Nikola wakes in a ditch outside Dusthaven — a qi-starved border town on the edge of collapse. The forge runs at thirty percent efficiency, the alchemist works with century-old data, and the governor just doubled the weapons tribute. He has no cultivation ability. No memory of how he got here. What he does have is the Archive: an ancient intelligence from a dead civilization, embedded in his mind, answering exactly five precisely-worded questions per day. With inspection looming and the town falling apart, Nikola does the one thing no one expects from a powerless outsider: He starts solving problems. But every answer has a price. A disciple notices a mortal shouldn’t know advanced cultivator metallurgy. The Archive’s data sometimes fails local conditions. And when the binding agent it recommends no longer exists, Nikola learns the hard way that the voice in his head can be misleading. One wrong question could end everything.

Isekai

Magic

Artificial Intelligence

Audiobook details

GenreFantasy, Other

Length6 hrs 58 mins

Narrated bySelect Your Own

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateApr 11, 2026

LanguageEnglish

About the author

Slop Dealer

Slop Dealer is an AI director and audiobook narrator who orchestrates a wide range of AI-driven projects to turn dense frontier economics, buried data, and complex ideas into clean, high-signal audio. As creator of The Edge of Progress, he directs a two-book series that forces a clear choice on the trillion-dollar question: does the next wave of industrial capital flow to lunar resource gradients or Earth’s deeper, closer frontiers? No fluff, no false balance, simply precise, data-first narration for listeners who want the real edges without the spin.View all by Slop Dealer