When the Alpha Particle was created, Daniel was in a hotel and there were insufficient interfaces for him to receive one. This would usually result in Sapient Deconstruction, but Ivey saved him by gifting part of her interface. It allowed Daniel to keep his sanity.

Together they formed a team and fought up the tower in a series of bloody battles relying on Daniel ingenuity to create traps to adjust the battlefield to their advantage. Via morse code they were made aware that there was a small group of survivors on the top floor who were in a stalemate with a deadly monster and likely to succumb at any moment. At a significant cost to the community, they destroyed the mana octopod that was terrorizing the top floor.

Their job is not done.

Daniel and Ivey are not part of the fledging community but they know they are not safe. There are still monsters on the floors below and more deadly ones in the streets below.

Daniel will need to draw on his unique advantages; his power to shape plants that let him create devastating traps, the power he gained from consuming zombie cores and the community he has helped save. All of them will be necessary to carve out more of the world for the human survivors of the event.

Sprout is the second volume in the Broken Interface series, set in Alex Kozlowski’s Alpha Physics Universe—described by fans as “a breath of fresh air” in the LitRPG genre, with stories that are “human, thought out, and realistic.”