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Last published Fri, Mar 22, 2024
Welcome to Schaken Academy, a school where only the best and brightest of sorcerers are able to practice and harness magical abilities. Every year, a lucky exchange student from the human world is dropped into this incredible avenue of magic and intrigue, able to wield divine powers for their own. This years student happens to be Anya Mazhar, an adept and quick-witted student with ambitions. However, the faculty fails to realise that those ambitions seem to not be in the school's favour.....
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