How not to lose yourself in a world infected with magic? Whoever fights monsters risks becoming one. How many knights fell victim to the “dragon’s craving”! And how many dragons have addicted themselves to the needle of human passions… Sir Geoffrey Ericdale Lennox survived a series of magical incidents, but paid with his destiny. In Sophia Verna’s life, on the other hand, nothing supernatural happened—until on her twenty-fourth birthday the girl learned that magic runs in her blood. When in the province of Anerlengo the first beauties of the kingdom begin to die, the half-knight and the would-be witch must choose: to renounce their fate once and for all, or to go to the other side of magic, knowing they will never return to what they were—if they can return at all. To be or not to be? To be human or not to be? And what does it mean to be human? There is less and less time to find the answers, because the sect of “The Beaters of the Devil” is closing in on transforming human nature itself.