The S class Guide belongs to the Duke
In a world ruled by Espers and Guides Elewisa Ashveil is just a powerless maid. Bullied, beaten and thrown into a raging river to drown, she touches an ancient imperial relic and It fuses with her and she becomes the rarest s-class guide in existence.
By the time she’s pulled from the water by Duke Caius Dravien, the empire’s most feared S-Class Esper, a glowing mark has already appeared beneath her collarbone.
And if the empire discovers it, they won’t protect her.
Elewisa is forced to hide the power growing inside her while obeying a mysterious system that punishes her whenever she refuses to guide others. The problem is that Guides are controlled by the empire.
An unregistered S-Class Guide is considered a threat.
Worse, Duke Caius keeps returning to the Count’s estate for reasons he doesn’t understand. Every other Guide’s power has felt unbearable to him since childhood, yet Elewisa’s presence silences the violent instability threatening to consume him. Elewisa is beginning to uncover the truth behind the monster outbreak that orphaned her…the truth about the man who really saved her that day…and why the Duke seems connected to memories she had long forgotten.
Caught between a Count whose kindness is turning into possession, a Duke who is starting to need her far too much, and a nobleman willing to rip the relic from her alive to seize control of the empire—
Elewisa must survive long enough to decide who she can trust before her secret destroys her first.
What if the truth about her past is more dangerous than the power growing inside her.
How long can she hide the empire’s greatest treasure.
And Would that treasure save or destroy her.
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Chapter: ~Chapter Nine~The hand on her shoulder was warm and friendly, and Elewisa nearly screamed anyway.She spun so fast her hood slipped. A young man in a black coat stood grinning down at her, sharp-featured, dark hair tied at the nape, the edge of a B-Class mark showing on his wrist. Nevan."Easy," he said, lifting both hands. "I don't bite. But you, my dear, are one of the worst spies I have ever met. You hid behind a barrel. A barrel, with half your skirt hanging out the side.""I wasn't spying.""Then what were you doing in a training yard full of armed men?""Fetching water."Nevan looked at the barrel, then at her empty hands. "With what?""I got lost.""In a mansion you've served at for years?" He tilted his head. "Half these men can crack a wall with one punch. If a practice blade slipped, nobody would have found you until supper."Her mouth opened and nothing useful came out. Her cold still sat in her chest, a thin rattle under every breath, and her scalp ached where Petra's fingers had been.
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Chapter: ~Chapter 8~Elewisa read the line three times, her finger pressed so hard beneath the words that the brittle page creased. Once a relic fused with a living host, it could not be retrieved. There was no way to take it out. "No," she whispered to the empty aisle. "No, no, no." She turned the page. Her hands would not hold still. She turned the page. Her hands would not hold still. The next entry matched her sketch line for line: the national treasure of unknown origin, kept under imperial seal, its theft answered with execution. Beneath it, in a cramped and fading hand, the author had added a note. The relic was the gift of Auren, goddess of binding, given to mortals so that Guides and Espers might be joined as one. A goddess. Elewisa stared at the line until the letters blurred. In the river, with water in her lungs, she had begged some goddess for one more chance. She had never imagined the answer would be something that could get her killed. The ink had gone brown with age, but the last wo
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Chapter: ~Chapter 7~The three froze mid-motion.Their eyes darted between one another in silent, panicked agreement before they bolted into the darkness, disappearing between the trees before either Cedric or Nevan could get a clear look at their faces.Nevan's hand flew instinctively to his hip. He shifted forward, ready to give chase.Cedric's arm shot out, stopping him."Let them go.""Captain, they were assaulting—""The priority," Cedric said flatly, already walking toward the shivering figure crouched on the riverbank, "is finding the young lady something to wear before she freezes to death in front of us."Nevan's face went spectacularly red."Right. Yes. Of course."He quickly shrugged off his jacket and thrust it toward Cedric without looking anywhere near Elewisa.She sat hunched in the mud, soaked from head to toe, her arms wrapped tightly around herself. Her teeth chattered too violently for her to speak.Cedric took the jacket and draped it over her shoulders in one efficient motion.His gaz
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Chapter: ~Chapter 6~Pain tore through Elewisa's ribs like something trying to claw its way out from the inside. Her eyes snapped open. A gasp scraped raw against her throat. The ceiling above her swam in and out of focus. Sweat soaked through her nightdress, clinging to her skin, and every breath came shallow and fast. The golden system message she'd spent the entire day ignoring had changed. It was no longer gold. It was red. And it hovered directly in front of her face. [URGENT: Accumulated guiding energy must be disbursed.] [Time Remaining: 4 Hours.] [Pain Level: 1/10.] [Failure to complete task will result in escalating punishment.] Elewisa stared. One? A thin, hysterical laugh escaped her. If this was one, she didn't want to know what ten felt like. She forced herself upright. The room tilted violently. She gripped the edge of the bed until it steadied, then reached for the worn hood hanging beside her wardrobe. Her hands shook as she pulled it over her head. Outside the window, t
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Chapter: ~Chapter 5~The golden shimmer was still hanging at the edge of her vision when Elewisa realized she'd frozen solid in the doorway, and it was that — not his voice — that made her heart lurch first."Are you okay?" Caius's voice cut through her spiraling thoughts, and she blinked hard, forcing the strange, glowing text to blur into nothing before he could see whatever expression had settled on her face."I'm fine," she stammered, the words tumbling out too fast to be convincing. "Have a pleasant day, my lord."She was gone before he could respond, feet carrying her down the corridor faster than propriety allowed, faster than her still-aching head could really tolerate. She didn't stop until she'd reached her own small room, until the door was shut behind her and her back pressed hard against it, chest heaving like she'd run twice the distance she actually had.The small mirror above her washstand caught her reflection, pale and wide-eyed, and just beyond it — impossibly, maddeningly — the golden
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Chapter: ~Chapter 4~The words wouldn't disappear no matter how hard she blinked.[Host has been designated: S-Class Guide.]Elewisa stared at the shimmering text hovering just beyond her vision, impossible and glowing faintly gold against the plain wood of her ceiling. She squeezed her eyes shut, certain that when she opened them again the madness would be gone, that her head — still throbbing from whatever had struck it the night before — was simply playing tricks born of trauma and near-death. But when she opened her eyes, the words remained, patient and unbothered by her disbelief.I drowned. The thought arrived with a strange, distant clarity. I drowned, and now I'm losing my mind.Slowly, she opened her eyes again.The golden letters remained exactly where they had been.Patient.Unbothered by her disbelief.Her breath caught.Then another line appeared.[Host has received first mission.]Elewisa reached toward it instinctively, as if she could touch the words and prove to herself they were real —T
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