Kado Tacana is used to feeling powerless. Born into a lawless slum where wild magic seeps from every street corner, the undersized pickpocket believes he has no other fate. But when the city’s vicious ruler demands the head of a ferocious monster, Kado defies his childhood gang and his lord, rescuing the creature after discovering it’s a helpless youngling.

With sorcerous agents shadowing his every step, he abandons the only home he’s ever known, fleeing with the innocent into a mystical realm. Surrounded by predators with merely his wits to protect them, Kado begins to fear that sacrificing his defenseless companion could be the only way to stop a tyrannical overlord’s twisted ascension.

Can one young orphan prevent a madman from unleashing an ancient force of chaos and becoming a god?