Best Retrograde Stories & Novels Collection

Jorren Thale has known failure his whole life. Not the ordinary kind. The kind that gets stamped into your official record, that follows your family name like a shadow, that makes evaluators smirk before you even press your palm to the stone.

When the Soulstone cracks at his touch and brands him with a zero grade, everyone in the chamber considers his story finished.
They are wrong.
A strange...