An imaginative variation on the increasingly popular isekai genre, where two worlds collide – the real and the virtual – in a pleasing combination of prose and comics.

Children’s and Young Adult

The main character Tomáš is obsessed with a computer game called The Alliance of the Valiant. Life in the virtual world, filled with monsters to be vanquished, treasure to be discovered, and secrets to be revealed, is so much easier than life in our world, where he has to go to school and face annoying schoolmates who bully him. At one particularly difficult point, the virtual and real worlds unexpectedly connect and suddenly everything is different – Tomáš will face daunting challenges that will reveal what is truly important, what you have to fight for, and how you should behave responsibly towards others. Ester Stará’s exciting story avoids moralizing and has a fresh, contemporary feeling in its style, which is helped by the dynamic, videogame-comics visuals by Jiří Franta, spread out over multi-panel page-sized compositions.

Age: 10+