Parry of the Void

In the barren hills of Oldis, where quality iron vanished eighty years ago and the Ash-Iron War's scars still bleed into the land, one man practices a motion with empty hands. Orvan is a Returner—one of the rare few who can invoke Causality Reversal, repelling a fatal blow at the cost of something irreplaceable. A weapon. A memory. A piece of himself. No one chooses what is lost. No one speaks of how much has been given up. It is the unwritten code of his kind. Three years ago, Orvan saved a c