Syntax Magica

In a world on the brink of collapse, magic is humanity’s last hope. Too bad no one knows how to use it properly. Sixteen-year-old Sorrin is a computer science prodigy in a society slowly being overrun by monsters from interdimensional Gates. The only weapon that even remotely works is magic—archaic, unpredictable, and so poorly understood that it's practically useless. When Sorrin discovers that magic behaves like code, everything changes. Spells aren't mystical, they're programmable. And he might be the first person alive who can rewrite them. In a dying world clinging to rituals and luck, Sorrin is about to turn spellcasting into a system. Because the apocalypse doesn't need a hero—it needs a developer.