Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World

Astral power flows through the world and is wielded by astral mages, a gift the Empire fears for its potential to devastate. Those who manifest it are hunted and oppressed, driving the persecuted to form the Nebulis Sovereignty in search of refuge. For more than a century, the Empire and Nebulis have remained locked in an unrelenting war.

Iska, a gifted Imperial knight, is imprisoned after committing the grave offense of freeing a captive witch. A year later, he’s unexpectedly released on one condition: track down the formidable mage known as the “Ice Calamity Witch.” He accepts, hoping the mission might become a path toward ending the conflict—but his target is Aliceliese “Alice” Lou Nebulis XI, a princess of Nebulis who also longs for peace, even as she stands ready to fight the Empire.

Drawn together by chance and conviction, Iska and Alice find their encounters reshaping the battlefield around them. As their shared desire for a world without suffering grows harder to ignore, the bond forming between sworn enemies begins to challenge everything the war has demanded of them.