When the Ashes Begin to Shine Again

October 11th had always been a cursed day for Jhoset Arias Vides. In his first world, that birthday brought death, loneliness, betrayal… and, in the end, a body falling from a bridge into the Bogotá River. It should have ended there. But the universe decided to rewind. Jhosep —now written with a “p”— is born again in a world that is the same, yet not the same: a modern Earth where mana exists, where magic and aura coexist with cars, cities, phones, and skyscrapers; where great Houses rule from the shadows, and where ancient Human Kings left an invisible wound carved into history. There’s only one problem: In a world where everyone has mana, Jhosep has none. To the world, he’s a void, an anomaly, a mistake. To his family, he’s the opposite: the hidden heir of House Arias, the bearer of a hereditary power called the Eyes of War, and the child whose mana was sealed at birth because it was too dense, too overwhelming, too dangerous to let him live. Raised between an imposing father, two mothers of legendary lineage, a half-elf sister who carries the wind in her veins, and an uncle named Cael —the greatest talent the Earth has ever seen— Jhosep tries to live quietly: training with his enigmatic teacher Eunhwa, studying, learning, smiling from time to time. But the ashes of his previous life never disappeared. They linger, beating inside him, mixed with a power he never asked for and with artifacts that should not exist—like the ring-spear Gungnir. When deviations —creatures and things twisted by mana— begin to spill over the world, when the great Houses are questioned, and when October 11th draws near once more… Jhosep will have to decide if he’ll keep running like the boy on the bridge, or if, this time, his ashes will shine again. ---