tomorrows book

Valerne is a city built around a hole in the ground. The dungeon beneath it has swallowed thousands of Wanderers, those who descend its floors in pursuit of wealth, glory, or something harder to name. Guilds backed by noble houses send their best and brightest deeper every season. The Church calls it sacred ground. Everyone else calls it a living. Aris calls it a garden. Sixteen years old, quietly raised by Father Edric in the lower district parish, Aris has no guild, no ambition, and no interest in either. His Eidolon, a spiritual manifestation of his mana, Void, is considered rare but basic. What it does well, he has spent years learning to do precisely: drawing poison, curse, and debuffs out of the bodies of Wanderers who come back from the deep floors broken in ways ordinary medicine can''''t address. His world stays small until the morning he finds a woman called Elysse collapsed on the stone floor of the sixth level, infected by a curse only Aris''''s Void can treat. Aris is forced to abandon his normal life as he devotes himself to finding the origin of Elysse''''s curse.