ZERO-STAR SCHOLAR: THE FORBIDDEN ARCHIVE

Kai is a 'Zero-Star' student at the prestigious Aetheria Academy, possessing a mana ranking so low he is considered a charity case. Desperate to save his dying familiar, Nero, from being recycled by the faculty, Kai defies the rules and enters the North Tower’s forbidden basement. There, he uncovers a dark legacy of failed scholars that the academy’s ranking system was designed to hide.