Ezra Iverson

The Architect’s Path isn’t built on spells—it’s built on logic, alloy, and leverage. Kusiqa was expelled from the Imperial Academy for failing theory while his hands could reshape truth. Now, marked by a bloodline that powers the system from within, he finds himself exiled to the deep logistical veins of a world reliant on precise crafting and complex supply chains. In a society where resources mean survival and every margin is measured, someone is siphoning the continent’s lifeblood. Kusiqa must use his practical brilliance to expose a systemic rot, forging his own tools, exploiting overlooked mechanics, and proving that the hands of a supposed failure can dismantle the powers hunting him.

Alvaro Salgado is the stubborn, fiercely loyal fixer for his family’s struggling trade house on the borderlands. It’s a bad day when negotiations go south; it’s a worse day when getting out of a bad deal means binding his life to an unread contract with Severo Macias—a ruthless arbiter with a terrifying reputation and motives no one can guess.

Now Alvaro is locked into a deadly apprenticeship on a frontier where reality itself is tearing at the seams. Two incompatible realities—the rigid, predictable Códice System and the wild, chaotic Raíz System—are bleeding into each other. Surviving Severo's graded, brutal trials means Alvaro must step into the overlap, intentionally crossing the wires of both Systems. Every glitch he exploits grants him an edge, a new mutation, a piece of raw power nobody else possesses. But tearing reality apart to win carries a cost, and his mentor is watching every move. He’s going to have to balance both ledgers before the Systems, or Severo, balance him permanently.