

Eight years ago, Roy Jones proved his self-invented fighting style was the best in the world by tearing through twenty-two martial halls across Sealand in a single sweep. The victory cost him his wife. He left everything, moved to the bottom rung of the city, and became a rickshaw driver—anonymous, careful, devoted entirely to raising his infant daughter in peace. The life is hard and he endures it. Then one act of public decency puts him in the crosshairs of Bliz Martial Hall, and his daughter gets pulled into the danger with him. Roy stops enduring. He moves through every obstacle Bliz puts in front of him with the same quiet efficiency that once cleared twenty-two halls, and he brings his daughter home.

In a world overrun by spirits, the strongest Wraith King, Draven Burke is betrayed and killed. Ten years later, a fragment of his soul is reborn in 8-year-old Rodley Graham, the younger brother of his former love, Sadie Graham. Everyone sees him as a useless nobody. Now, he must survive family oppression, fend off enemies, and protect his sister while reclaiming his lost power.

Adrian Vane, the empire's peerless alchemical prodigy and the architect of dragon blood alchemy, was betrayed and slain by his own protégé, Sebastian Kraven. His soul became bound to A.V.001, a discarded Class F iron golem in his abandoned laboratory — where he made a staggering discovery: the golem's frame allowed him to channel alchemy directly, with no transmutation array required.For three years, Adrian lay low in a desolate scrapyard, reforging his golem body from scrap through alchemy while plotting to infiltrate the Imperial Alchemy Association and exact vengeance on Kraven. His seclusion broke when Lena Holloway, an expelled academy dropout scavenging to survive, stumbled into his refuge. The two forged an unlikely alliance.Thus emerged a most unassuming pair: a disgraced student and her battered Class F golem. They would step foot into the Imperial Alchemy Academy, and set off a storm that would rock the very foundations of the empire's alchemical world.

:In my last life, my sister, Raven Webster, and I rescued two eggs. Her egg hatched into Snowviper, while mine became Blazewing. But Raven stole Blazewing from me. None of us could have imagined the world would end in a brutal heatwave apocalypse. Raven died from heat stroke in that inferno. And before she died, she tricked my husband, Snowviper, into strangling me with his own tail. Somehow, we were both reborn on the very day those eggs hatched. This time, Raven snatched up Snowviper. She thought having him would keep her safe through the heatwave apocalypse. What she didn't know was that Snowviper's powers could only be fueled by drinking fresh human blood every single day.