Eşit Değişimin Efendisi

At the Imperial Magic Academy, Alex Norton is no one. A magicless scribe. A punching bag for the noble heir Hilal Konor. Until the day he discovers his bloodline holds a forbidden power: the Contract of Equivalent Exchange. He can trade anything—his pain for their humiliation, his fear for their undoing. But every bargain carves a scar into his skin. Every victory pulls him closer to the edge. When Alex publicly exposes the Konor family's darkest secret, the Knights of Order brand him a heretic. They drag him into a Purification Ritual meant to strip away his power and leave him dead. He barely escapes, saved by a debt he never knew he was owed. Alya Vessel, a silver-armored knight with her own blood-soaked past, steps into his fight. She doesn't ask for his trust. She only says, “Your father saved my life once. Now I repay it with yours.” But the Contract is not a gift. It is a curse planted by Loki, the ancient God of Deals, and Alex's entire family was slaughtered to bury that truth. He carries his father's last gamble inside him. His body is breaking down. The god in his head is waiting for him to slip. And the knights who killed his parents are now hunting him again. They think he's prey. They think he'll break. But Alex Norton has learned the first rule of bargaining: true equivalence isn't about equal value. It's about making both sides believe they've won. And he's willing to bet every last scar, every breath, every shattered bone—on one final