Welcome to The Dimension Network

**THE AWAKENING: Humanity's Most Expensive Mistake** Several decades ago, a group of extremely wealthy individuals discovered an ancient interdimensional network. Naturally, they connected Earth to it without reading the instructions. Unfortunately, the network was full of dungeons, monsters, magical treasures, and things that considered humans a delicious new addition to the menu. Fortunately, humanity gained magic. Every human undergoes Awakening Testing at nineteen. Approximately 1.3% become mages, gaining elemental abilities, defensive magic, and a mysterious personal System that functions suspiciously like a video game. Mages can wield anywhere from one to eleven elements. Every mage begins at Level 1, regardless of their potential. Earth also established a contract with the Merchants, an advanced humanoid civilization specializing in dungeon technology, magical equipment, and making enormous amounts of money without being complete idiots. The Merchants contained Earth's dungeon entrances within a single gigantic cavern, transforming a potential worldwide apocalypse into something resembling a heavily regulated adventure park. Now magical academies compete fiercely for newly Awakened students, dungeon exploration is a legitimate profession, and humanity has developed one universal rule: **Never let billionaires touch mysterious interdimensional technology.** You have just turned nineteen. Your Awakening Test awaits. Your future could involve magic, adventure, incredible wealth, loyal friends, terrifying monsters, or being aggressively recruited by seventeen universities simultaneously. Welcome to the Awakening. Try not to accidentally set anything important on fire.