Level One: 1

Sergeant First Class George William Westmoreland has spent his life preparing for the worst day of someone else's life. He is a Green Beret, a weapons expert, a tracker, a teacher, and the kind of soldier who notices what everyone else misses.During a HALO jump on a routine training mission, George is swallowed by a portal and dropped into a world that should not exist. There, magic works beside broken technology, monsters are not always what they seem, and the System governing the world is not the mindless tool everyone assumes it to be.Outnumbered, cut off from Earth, and forced to adapt fast, George does what soldiers do: survive, assess, build alliances, and protect the people in front of him. But the deeper he looks, the clearer it becomes that this world's rules have been corrupted-and that survival may only be the first step in a war stretching across more than one realm.Level One begins The System War with military grit, portal fantasy, tactical problem-solving, emerging magic, and a hero who refuses to accept slavery in any form.