Null and Void

Calder Wren arrived at Veldrath Academy with one plan: keep his head down, survive four years, and go home. That plan died the moment the affinity orb turned grey. Null. No talent. No future. The academy only kept him enrolled due to an obscure clause in the founding charter that even the headmaster couldn't argue around. Now he's living in a condemned dormitory wing that's been abandoned for a century, being mentored by the one professor nobody else wanted, and somehow getting dragged into a conspiracy that goes all the way down—literally. Turns out, the thing everyone called "nothing" might just be the only thing capable of stopping what's coming. He really didn't ask for this.