King's magician, Harlock Cooper, the greatest magician that ever lived - has just died.
Now it's in the hands of the aged and weary Grand Magic Master, Wenward Marning, to scour the kingdom and find a suitable replacement in time to prevent a war. He sets out on the task with the knowledge that he can never find anyone as great as Harlock Cooper.
Or can he?
Marning meets Rat, a curious, rough-tempered street boy with a particularly keen talent for magic. Torn by grief, rage and the desire for revenge, Rat reluctantly places his loyalties to his street family aside and focuses on becoming the kingdom's magical champion. However, there is more to Rat than meets the eye, and he is the only one who can uncover who - or what - he truly is.
Together, Rat and Marning, boy and elder, work through their differences as they face a slowly unraveling web of conspiracy, treason, betrayal and revenge: and along with it, the dark reality of a terrible curse coming their way.
I grunted in pain at the impact with the floor, the weight of the deadly beast keeping me down.
I knew this was it, the beast would end me. Then the weight was lifted of me and I turned around only to see it stared me straight in the eyes.
It was close enough for me to see the calculating golden brown eyes.
Then it turned and ran away. Leaving me there alive and confused.
Why had the beast spared me?
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Ruby lives a carefully woven weave of lies, she hopes to start a new life but then things change and the truth is brought to the surface.
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Jasper attends the yearly competition between nobles to give his father power in the world of nobles.
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What happens when the two meet each other and an undeniable bond begins to form between them and dark secrets is revealed?
Written in:
17 Augusti 2017 - 23 December 2017
Published in: 21 March 2018 - 13 June 2018