Magic is unpredictable and dangerous—and Ilynar will have to prove it to himself. He has strength, but no knowledge; a mentor, but almost no time—neither enemies nor otherworldly monsters nor the snake disease will wait.
Hostile Orders, dark rituals, the Wild Lands—every day brings a new challenge. Defeat, or die.
But he has already promised he’ll return—and she still hasn’t said “yes.”
On his side are loyal friends, the experience of a sphere-technician of an operational group, and also his own ridiculous stubbornness that, again and again, refuses to let him give up.