Alyssa Meadows, a worker at a local home improvement store, returns home one evening to find it being invaded by burglars. A bad night gets worse when, after accidentally killing one, an angel appears and tells her she is destined to die. Alyssa takes an exception and saves herself, only to find out that angels don’t like destiny being messed with. She finds herself shunted off to an alternate world filled with magic and monsters to preserve Earth’s future.
Vacant Throne
is a Web Serial Novel written by TowerCurator, also known for creating Void Domain series. The series is complete.
This Series provides examples of:
- Adventure Guild: Knights Solaris are pretty much this, including an announcer for new postings and a board for job requests. Although their work often consists of escorting people and helping farmers with troublesome monsters, sometimes they are tasked by city guard with strengthening defense or with dangerous reconnaissance missions outside of Lyria.
- Bond Creature: A hellhound accidentally imprints on Alyssa.
- Fantastic Racism: People of Lyria aren't fond of monsters to say the least. The ones in the city are slaves and providing them with an access to magic is considered treason. Subverted in that the royal family so far has actually been tolerant of them, but can't afford to be seen too sympathetic by the general populace.
- Have You Seen My God?: The throne has been vacant for thousands of years.
- Immune to Fate: The plot point that starts the story. Angelic calculations just don't work around Alyssa and she is able to alter both her destiny and destiny of the people around her.
- Oh, Crap!: Alyssa is helping to move would-be victims of her murderer to Tenebrael's world without angelic authorities on Earth noticing. For her last job, she is transported in front of her parents' home.
- Shapeshifter Identity Crisis: Kasita feels more comfortable as a human than in her true form.
- Shout-Out:
- The Matrix:
- the fractal mirror spell utilises three ideas from the Matrix trilogy: the scene of his original "initiation" through use of a mirror; the scene where Neo confronts The Architect; the concept of Neo as a disruptive anomaly present in the system.
- the Resonation spellcasting scene for Izsha has parallels with Trinity's bullet-removal "surgery" from Matrix Reloaded.
- SCPFoundation:“Are you alright?”“Fine! I am perfectly fine. Absolutely nothing is wrong. What’s next? A mass of flesh that absorbs anything it touches? An unstoppable monster that will eat anyone who sees its face? Or maybe a cute little teddy bear that is full of ears instead of stuffing? Send them all at me! See if I care! I’ll—”
- The Matrix:
- Time Master: Pharaoh. Can slow down time and uses time magic in fighting. Also probably to keep himself younger than he really is.
- Villain Decay: The fake angels, once protagonist starts confronting them herself.
- Water Wake-up: Alyssa to Irulon, much to her disapproval.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: One of the transmigrators guesses accurately that he's about to get isekai'd but has the wrong impression that he'll be the main character and thus have plot armor and be able to risk his life without consequences.
