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Others Summon Titans, I Draw The Major Arcana

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In a society built on Anima, soul-bound creatures that grant superhuman abilities, a summoner's worth is absolute. Two years ago, the assessment boards tried to measure Maximus Sterling. They returned a zero. The son of Aldenmoor's most famous broken hero awakened a black lacquered box containing twenty-two blank cards. Branded a dud and relegated to Valen Academy's dead-last Class Z, Max is given three semesters to prove his worth before facing expulsion. Everyone expects him to fade away quietly. With no Anima and no stat transfer, Max fights with bloody knuckles and brutal physical conditioning. He survives on pure spite. The experts assumed his catalyst was broken. In truth, they simply lack the vocabulary for what lives inside his soul. Those twenty-two cards are the Major Arcana. They are ancient, conceptual sovereigns waiting for a vessel large enough to hold them. While the academy's elite play with magical beasts, Max is slowly becoming the host for the laws of reality itself. They call him the Zero. They are about to learn that Zero is just the beginning.
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