It’s impossible to get around without being late to stop the bloodshed.

That was one of the problems of the five champions of Morvian College, standing high for more than 300 years. Despite housing powerful students, it is infested with evil spirits. 

Phantrits.

In the present year of 708, the rising peak of the next Blood Moon, five students are tasked to bring balance between spirits and Leiaz. Erasing the victim’s traces of existence was easier, since it kept all of them alive, a luxury for the previous champions.

A calculating winner whose great powers hold secrets of an origin otherworldly. A lover who wishes for freedom before the inevitable chains of an arrangement pull her back. A second-best son toiling in the shadow of his brother. A leader of the unlawful with a burning hatred towards his colleague. A knight, proud to succeed a legacy, who wants nothing more than to see his sister again.

Thus begins the 5 of Diamonds.

5 of Diamonds: The Wishing Well

“What!?” I looked up, staring at Shanz. 


“The dagger’s in my desk drawer, lower one. Get it before I pass out.” She said, slumped against the couch. 


How could she be so calm with a request like that? When I first met her, it was clear to me that she had a strange obsession with becoming stronger, to fit in with the populace. 


I understood that, sure. It was law that all celestial beings, destroyers said to be brewed from dark magic, were to be reported to authorities, the Knights of the Round Table. But knowing Shanzina, she was only a woman like me, who happened to be from another dimension. 


Pressure began to build up in my ears as if I was deep underwater; everything I heard was muffled and warped. 


“I don’t know if it’s normal in your world to stab each other, but I am not doing that.” I stood, trying to blink away the nuisance inside. “Aren’t there other ways you can get mana-energy back? 


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