Mirror of the Abyss
In a world where one’s social standing is dictated by the beast they bond with at eighteen, Kaelen is a scholarship student from the soot-choked slums who has everything to....
In a world where one’s social standing is dictated by the beast they bond with at eighteen, Kaelen is a scholarship student from the soot-choked slums who has everything to lose. During the Bonding Ceremony, she does not manifest a dragon, a manticore, or a phoenix. Instead, she bonds with a Void-Wisp, a creature officially recorded as Rank-F: a "mana-sponge" with no combat value. While the elite students like Valerius and his S-Rank Manticore mock her, Kaelen discovers a glitch in the Academy’s ancient registry. Her beast is not a sponge; it is a mirror. It has no power of its own because it is designed to condense and reflect the power of those who attack it. Forced into a series of deadly trials to keep her scholarship, Kaelen must survive the Academy’s hierarchy while her "smudge of dirt" begins to feast on the arrogance of the elite.