Nearly two years after the death of Raven’s parents, she and her brother – who has gained the unstable spirit body of a purely white nightingale – have finally arrived in Sky City.

But now is not the time to feel relaxed.

Raven has to pass the entrance exam to the Imperial Sky Academy of Divine Arts with enough brilliance to land her a place in the advanced classes or Hoatzin will lose his new-found body. She also has to figure out who helped the Talons kill her family and if there is any connection between them and Empress Nene, who is in turn accused of treason.

With all this going on, will Raven ever find the time to cultivate, and perhaps even more importantly, will she find the time to make new friends?

She will need them both.

Chapter List

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1. Morning of the Exam
2. The Exam Begins
3. Unprecedented
4. Admittance
5. Imperial Banquet
6. The Dare
7. The Library
8. An Arbitrary Amount of Skills
9. The Fake’s Performance
10. Threats and Lies
11. Setting Things in Motion
12. A Slip of the Hand
13. Things You Live For
14. Saving a Madman
15. The Soul Stirs
16. Merciless
17. Memories
18. Visions
19. Familiar yet Unfamiliar
20. Recognition
21. Confrontations
22. The Plot Thickens
23. Nailing It
24. Between a Rock and a Hard Place
25. The Lunar Trials
26. Combined Assault
27. A Spoke in the Wheel
28. Darkness Descends
    
29. Spirit Hall Tower
30. Desperate Decisions
31. Revelations
32. Meeting Again
33. Deep in the Mountain
34. Foes and Allies

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There will come a, mostly stolen, cover for this volume as  well but I can’t decide on the motive yet… On the up side, I’ve put together a novel front page instead ^.^