"I don't get it. I just don't... what are you thinking?" Jest was dismayed. The kid, Asterion, had seemed strange from the very beginning. The mere fact that Anvil, who…

Cassie froze for a moment, having finally found what she had been looking for. "The king's Flaw..." And what a cruel Flaw it was. No wonder he seemed cold as…

It was on a rainy day two years later that Jest found young Anvil in the same underground hall, gazing at the same ominous mirror with bleak eyes. Beyond this…

Almost three years had passed since the Awakened Academy welcomed its first batch of the Second Generation Sleepers. The world had settled a little. Humanity was still besieged from all…

So many things had happened, and worse than that, things constantly kept happening. So, Jest was busy all the time and had not paid too much attention to young Anvil…

About a year later, Jest was leaning on the wall of a random building, feeling dizzy from drinking too much. It was hard for an Ascended to get drunk, but…

In the basement of Jest's lavish mansion at the heart of NQSC, behind several layers of armored alloy and defended by a cutting-edge spelltech defense system, lay a square chamber…

In the end, there had not been a Second Gate Crisis. That was because people like Warden had anticipated that Category Three Gates would start appearing in the near future,…

What Immortal Flame had accomplished changed everything. Even before the news of his Ascension spread around the world like a tidal wave, igniting the hearts of countless people, it had…

Little Anvil was not so little anymore, having just turned seven. He had somehow grew into something that resembled an actual person now, albeit a mini version, and one could…