Exams can be life-changing. Failing one just ended Allen’s promising career at the royal court before it began. Now, to make ends meet, the lowborn sorcerer must help one of the kingdom’s highest-born young ladies pass hers.

Akira is uneducated and underfed—just another homeless kid in the slums. Hunting relics of a dead civilization is his only way out, but his first foray into the ruins threatens to end his brief life—until he meets a mysterious woman named Alpha.

Akira sets out to escape the slums, hunting lost technology in the deadly ruins of the “Old World.” The young street orphan would be lucky just to survive—until an encounter with Alpha, a mysterious, ghostly woman, changes his fate forever.

After failing the final exam for his dream job at the royal court, promising young sorcerer Allen finds himself roped into tutoring Lady Tina Howard, the magically impaired daughter of one of the kingdom’s most powerful nobles.