A common story: an incurable illness, the last hope in the form of “fake” magic, mastering mana, learning souls and minds, and then— a new body! Young, healthy, from a wealthy countly family… And cursed to top it all off, because the piece of her mother’s soul that had been protecting her son didn’t appreciate the arrival of an interloper. So Victor van Belvios became a mage without magic—forced to spill blood by the liter every day just to keep from dying in agony. The universe’s sense of humor, however, turned out to be not very good—fact.
But it’s precisely difficulties that forge the strongest, and maybe this story is no exception…