What should you do if the descendant of a glorious dynasty is not attracted by the career of a wizard? Thomas Tangor preferred the predictability and beauty of alchemy to the risky but lucrative profession of a black mage. But fate has other plans on that score. What to do? A foolish question! No black mage has yet been born who could not sit on two chairs at once. Only, in the process, he will earn himself twice as many problems…