lacey-books

Physics doesn''''t care about your Bloodline. Mizuki Yumaki is a volatile failure of a High Noble. Desperate to escape her brother’s shadow, she views her exile to Outpost 404 not as a death sentence, but as a final chance to earn a Nexus-Blade. She expects a fortress. She finds a graveyard. The outpost is run by the theatrical Captain X and Noll—a frail, dismissive boy who claims that without his tools, he is nothing but a corpse. He treats magic not as a miracle, but as an equation to be solved. And in 404, he is the only one who has done the math. A distress signal draws them into the subterranean dark, where Mizuki realizes the "beasts" are evolving. They are being engineered with crystals that devour magic, and the old laws of the Clans mean nothing here. To survive, Mizuki must abandon her honor and rely on Noll’s heresy. He doesn''''t cast spells. He doesn''''t pray to gods. He simply deletes the enemy.