The Copper Gauntlet

The famous school for magicians, Magisterium, lies deep underground. Children with special powers and talents study there. Thanks to strict selection and extremely harsh trials, only winners graduate from the school. After all, who else could face the Enemy of Death—a mighty magician embodying pure evil? That is why learning magic is almost the same as signing your own death sentence. But whether they want it or not, magic runs in their blood.

“One of you will fall. One of you will die. And one of the dead has been for a long time.” I know about this prophecy and I perfectly understand that one of these three is me. My life hangs by a thread, just like my father’s life, who is suspected of kidnapping a powerful alchemical weapon. And now I and my friends have to find this alka-gest at any cost. Because it is the only power capable of stopping the Enemy of Death. And if my father managed to get his hands on it… I can only imagine what will happen to him, to all of us—and especially to me, given who I truly am…