Reborn in a world that was both familiar and unfamiliar to him, Adrian found himself in a time he recognized as 361 BCE, a period marked by the battle between a Mauryan empire and the independent state of Kalinga.
Opening his eyes in the body of an infant on the battleground of the Kalinga war, he looked towards the sky, which was bathed in blood.
But something was different here. While he expected the time and names to be the same, the world was not.
The battle that should have been fought with swords, spears, and arrows was instead waged using an energy he was unfamiliar with, called mana.
This world, in which he was now a part, was different from the history he remembered.
It was a world where magic existed, and the magus determined which kingdoms held more power over others.
