by 1ANONYMOUS2
In the Kingdom of Solaria, magic is everything. At age fifteen, every citizen awakens their Aether-Core, unlocking elemental power and determining their place in society. The radiant rule from floating palaces. The dim toil in the shadows below. Ren awakened nothing. Branded a Defect with a Void-Core that devours magic, Ren spent ten years forging his body into a weapon of flesh and bone. When a monster of living stone attacks the lower city, Ren doesn't cast a spell. He punches it until it explodes. Now the Kingdom wants to use him. Lady Elara, a prodigy light-mage, wants to understand him. And High Inquisitor Vane—the man who branded him—wants him erased. But when Ren and Elara fall in love across an impossible divide, their forbidden child becomes the key to humanity's salvation… or its extinction. The Kingdom will burn them for heresy. The flames will only make him stronger. A shōnen epic of defiance, blood, and the rebellion of the magicless.
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