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Salazar is nineteen when a nameless letter summons him to the Magistratum of Reality, an elite academy for mages. He is brilliant, quiet, and always watching — and within a year, he has found three friends, a purpose, and a pattern no one else can see. Something is wrong with the empire. Students vanish. Names disappear. The war at the edge of the universe is not what it seems. He says nothing. He keeps a list. He waits. Years pass. He rises. He builds something in the shadows his superiors d