Until your turn is over

In the Seirian Empire, magic is a privilege reserved for the chosen few, sealed with the Council's seal. For everyone else, it is a death sentence. Once every ten years, the Court gives magicians a chance: survive the deadly trials and gain your freedom. Lose, and you will be reduced to dust in the arena. You are an illegitimate witch from the Wild Province. One of the judges of the Court once banished your mother, and you lost everything. Now you tell yourself that you are ready to undergo any trial, just to get to him. But the rules have changed — participants must fight in pairs, bound by a magical ritual of compatibility. You are paired with someone who is incompatible with you by all human standards — a cold-hearted aristocratic mage and former officer. Order and Chaos. Together, they are a dangerous anomaly. The further they go, the stronger the magic binds their lives, feelings, and even thoughts. And where only hatred should remain, something far more dangerous than any enemy in the arena begins to grow. You can win the Game. You can die in the Game. But no one said you could fall in love in it.