The Cycle Begins
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Black magic. Psychics, witchcraft, practices of an art everyone in this day and age believe doesn't exist in this world.
But what if it did? What if, after all this time, it was there all along?
Magic runs on 2000 year cycles on earth. The last magicians of the magical age used magic to preserve themselves for the 2000 years without magic. But now it's returning, and there is an unsettling presence coming with it. Now, it is up to the ancient magicians to train new magicians, face new threats, in a technologically run earth being introduced to a power much more powerful than people can comprehend.
(To my current and new readers): I have updated the format to how I ACTUALLY tend to write the book, which is in fact segments. The chapter lengths are still the same, but now I'll be able to update it more frequently, to make it better for you, the wonderful readers of mine! :)
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