Shane Noah CrimsonBlade is the firstborn of the most revered house in the Ashelthan Empire — yet he's branded talentless. Incapable of sensing World Energy, the force that fuels aura and magic, Shane’s future seems sealed before it even begins.
Despite his noble lineage, his place in the family crumbles when the Emperor’s sister marries into the CrimsonBlade line, and her gifted son rises as the next prodigy.
But everything changes at age twelve, when a mysterious incident awakens something within Shane — something that draws the attention of powers far older and stranger than the empire itself.
As ancient forces begin to stir, Shane finds himself at the center of secrets, echoes of a forgotten legacy, and a fate that no one — not even the gods — could have foreseen.
How is a so-called failure tied to the empire’s survival?
And what is awakening inside him… that even the divine can’t explain?