Have you heard of the Philosopher’s Stone? I scattered it like garden paths. I was the greatest alchemist, but my latest potion turned my body into a weapon against the Corruption, ready to erase everything living from the face of the world. By the will of the gods—or by the whim of chance—I didn’t die. Instead, I woke up in the body of a failed laboratory assistant in a world where alchemy is under the strictest ban. My former colleagues have become charlatans, the Corruption is spreading everywhere, and everything is run by pharmaceutical corporations for whom profit matters more than human lives. But I’m still here—and with me are the knowledge and skills of the Supreme Master of Alchemy. And that means I’ll do what I love again, and I’ll prove it: alchemy isn’t a trade. It’s a way of living.