Witchmarked (World's First Wizard #1)

by Aaron D. Schneider

The world was an ugly, flat, miserable place, filled almost exclusively by small, shallow, and ultimately petty people. His education had taught him that the universe hated life, and his experience among callous and cruel people reminded him of that daily.

couldn’t shake that for all their bluster, they were just more cogs finding their own grinding path in the brutal and blind machine that was existence.

nothing else but to survive without hope or reason. Nothing to live for. Nothing more.

soldiers’ lives are the currency officers must spend to purchase victory?”