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Seventeen-year-old Jace Lorrin never expected the Trial to choose him. He definitely didn’t expect it to bend its own rules the moment he was involved. But the day he cracks open a forbidden book and accidentally awakens a long‑sleeping fragment of the Devouring Apotheosis, everything changes. The power that stirs inside him—a secret ability to turn poison into strength—is something the Academy pretends to celebrate. Publicly, they call him a rare kind of alchemist. Privately, the very wards of the school twist and react whenever he walks past, as if the place is quietly rearranging itself around him.