Introduction: Reid Forrester is barely getting through life after a traumatic childhood, he'd carved out a small niche to survive despite being surrounded by violent accidents that seemed to miss him by a hair. Then, after an unfortunate accident that spelled his untimely death, he awakes to the sight of a plain mannequin, and a being so grand and complex it hurts his mind to even consider.He is then transported to a new world of magic and fantasy, but his experience is far from the adventure he would've hoped for when he is purchased as a slave subject of an engimatic magical university researcher, and the experiments he is subjected to leave him even more broken than he'd been on Earth.His suffering and desperation will inevitably lead him to be one of the strongest beings in this world, but the cost of this power will be far greater than Reid would've chosen to bear, if he'd had any choice to begin with....