**Every January 1st, the sky turns red.**
Since the Great Catastrophe, dragons descend every year during the Night Walk, ravaging cities and bunkers alike. Humanity survives as best it can, counting its dead by daybreak.
Rashford is just one more orphan in this chaos—until the day he crosses paths with Joe Ng-Kak, the Empire's most feared dragon slayer, capable of annihilating titanic creatures with a single gesture. One question takes hold of him: *why am I still alive?*
His answer lies at the Dragon Slayer Academy, where you don't just learn to fight—you learn to become a weapon. Here, mental energy shapes both body and soul, rivalries are encouraged rather than stifled, and every emotion feeds a power capable of deciding the line between life and death.
Between camaraderie forged through struggle, ruthless hierarchies, and the growing shadow of a dragon god who never truly vanished, Rashford will have to choose: remain a victim of this world, or become the one who changes it.