After being sold off by his parents to human traffickers due to a physical deformity and ending up as a resident of the underworld, a jaded mercenary is killed during a mission gone wrong.
As he dies, he suddenly find himself waking up in a younger, unfamiliar body, in an unfamiliar world. He finds himself in a rundown orphanage located in a medieval world full of Magic and Monsters, his new body weak and frail. His new name is Jaedfern Meraled, or Jade for short.
But he's not alone in being sent to this world...along with him for the ride is the Angel Arkiela, who was banished to this world for interfering with the human world out of boredom. Specifically, she used her powers to feed and amplify people's impulses and intrusive thoughts, including the people around Jade, whom she targeted to, in her words, "mess with", and subsequently went on to ruin his life.
She then claims that their lives are now intertwined...if one of them dies, so will the other. While being uncertain as to whether she's being honest about that or lying so that he can't afford to kill her, Jade can't exactly risk putting it to the test, so he errs on the side of caution.
In this world, there are three main elements to a person's Magic...their Magic Class; which is the core of their abilities, their Mana Pool; the quantity of Magical energy they possess, and finally, their Skills; special abilities that include active powers such as Appraisal and passive powers such as Heat Resistance. Each person possesses three Skills, without exception.
As for Jade, his Magic Class is...well, he doesn't have one. And his Mana Pool...is nonexistent, he possesses no Magical energy whatsoever. And finally, his Skills...he only has one, titled "Mercenary's Item Box".
However, Jade may not necessarily be as bad off as it initially seems...because within his Item Box, is every weapon he owned during his previous life, weapons that don't exist in this world...
The world was forever changed when the Aether imploded, taking the regenerative abilities of our magic with it. Now magic is dying and it's taking the kingdom with it. Four royal houses must maintain keep the kingdom from crumbling by ensuring magic doesn't disappear. And all is going according to plan, the heirs are ready to receive their powers and begin attending Havenhurst Academy to become the rulers they were destined to be. But a scorned assassin, known as the Reaper, throws a wrench into those plans when her presence at the transference ceremony ends with royal magic inside her instead. This wasn't exactly the plan, but it gets her one step closer to eliminating the royal houses and avenging her parents deaths. Forced to Havenhurst under the watchful eye of the heirs Amaris "Deirdre" Eldergrove must find a way to survive while trying to keep her true identity secret. She has a mission to complete but complicated feelings for the four men she's supposed to kill begin to get in the way. Add in the unraveling secrets that could change the world as they know it and the increasing possibility that she's the only one that can save it and she's feeling way out of her depth. She's a killer, it's literally in her job description. Saving people was never her strong suit, just ask her parents. They always say you can't teach an old Fae new tricks.