Adam Levi James wishes a lot of things. He wishes that his middle name stood for Leviathan, for example, and that he were a better judge of people. Mostly, he wishes that he hadn't had to take a long dive down a wormhole to save a bunch of people who only vaguely tolerate him.

Then again, he managed to come out the other end mostly intact, in the depths of this Godsforsaken place, and he's always dreamed of having magical powers. Maybe things will turn out for the best.

AN: This story, by chapter 5, contains: a gratuitous amount of in-media-res, magic, violence, smut, a burgeoning friendship, and skills with absolutely no context. Expectations should include magic-as-programming/engineering (with something of an emphasis on "what if magical runework were an analogue to circuit diagrams"), more power progression systems than you can shake a stick at, an insufficiency of context and definition for those power progression system, and occasionally, more smut.