Young and aspiring mage William Schmidt is about to leave behind everything he knows to leave for the city of Vallen. There he'll finally become a full-fledged sorcerer in the academy and make his family proud. But not everything is as it seems, for when young Will arrives in the academy he finds it to be a minefield of nobles and not long after his enrolment is forced to go deep into the dungeons as punishment for offending the crown princess. There he finds the true meaning of death and a blade that will forever change his life, or what's left of it.