The Hollow Samurai

They called him the Hollow. A defect. A failure.They were wrong. Takeda Ryoma dies as he lived—by the sword. Betrayed and cut down, his samurai's soul is ripped from the afterlife and thrust into the body of Lysander Holt: the magicless, suicidal son of a noble house in a world woven from sorcery. Here, power is mana. And Ryoma has none. To the elven Archon Valerion, Ryoma is not a tragedy. He is an opportunity. The perfect vessel for a forbidden power: Kivós, the Way of the Void—a force born from within, untouched by the world's magic. Under Valerion's cold guidance and the brutal tutelage of Kaelen—the shadow-elf known as The Edge That Listens—Ryoma is reforged. Pills sharpen his senses. Training hardens his body. History lessons reveal a world on the brink of magical war. He learns to move without sound, to feel the ripple of spells before they're cast, to become a still point in a screaming world. But as his power grows, so do the questions. Why do the torches dim when he passes? Why does his sister look at him like he's already a ghost? And what lies in the heart of the frozen Whitewood, where they say his "true training" will begin? Ryoma is being sculpted into something new. Something powerful. Something that could change the balance of a world trembling on the edge of another Bleeding War. But a sculpture that remembers it was once a man cannot be controlled.And a weapon that learns to think cannot be aimed.