A portal built by a powerful ancient race of magicians called the Gone-Once throws a young graduate student-archaeologist, a quiet intellectual, into a harsh resemblance of the Middle Ages. After the Great universal war, the survivors continue to fight each other with sword, fire, and magic for the right to achieve the final victory that grants power over the world. These battles are no longer as large-scale as the war that has thundered in the past—but they are no less cruel and bloody.
What fate awaits yesterday’s young scholar, and now—only a novice of a mage—in this merciless, endless struggle?