Genesis

Adeline Staria has always known what she wants.

As the eldest daughter of Wizard King Asta Staria and Lexi Staria, she has grown up surrounded by Magic Knights, impossible stories, and a family name recognised across the Clover Kingdom. To most people, she is proof of a legacy before she is anything else.

Adeline has no intention of living in that shadow.

She wants to earn her own place among the Magic Knights, receive her grimoire, pass the Entrance Exam, and one day become a captain through her own strength. But ambition is never simple when everyone already thinks they know who she is supposed to become.

Her younger brother, Deamon, has a dream just as fierce. At thirteen, he is determined to follow their father's path all the way to the title of Wizard King. Like Adeline, he inherited Celestial Magic, though the two siblings use it in very different ways-and clash just as often over what their power should mean.

Their eleven-year-old sisters, Elle and Wren, are harder to explain. The twins wield a strange radiant magic that resembles Light Magic without truly behaving like it, an attribute even Lexi cannot trace. Asta insists magic does not always pass neatly from parent to child, but the mystery surrounding the twins' power is not so easily dismissed.

At Clover Star Academy, Adeline and her siblings train alongside the children of the Clover Kingdom's most legendary Magic Knights: heirs to captains, royalty, misfits, rivals, and heroes whose names already carry weight. Lessons become competitions. Friendships turn complicated. Family expectations follow them into every classroom, training field, and exam.

For Adeline, the academy is only the beginning.

*Sequel to Illuminae*