by KingAster
Riné Verocai, a fallen noble of the foreign Dralos Clan and heir to a forbidden mage known as the Spectre of Calamity, enters the Daelk Empire with one mission: Attend the decadent Sophia academy as a model student. A seemingly mundane mission -an almost healing one- begins to warp as political strife and wraiths from Riné’s hidden past resurface threatening not only his path as a Seeker, but also his very sense of self. In a world teetering on the path of destruction as ambition and magic clash, Rin is forced to choose: whether happiness in strength is a delusion he is willing to chase or will he surrender himself to become a weapon submitting to others' wills? [Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]
