Just Read Me Already!

Three centuries of silence. That was how long the ancient grimoire had languished, untouched and forgotten, upon a dusty shelf within the hallowed halls of the Le Temis Royal Academy Library. Once a vessel of immense arcane power, the sentient book had resigned itself to an eternity of obscurity, a relic of a bygone era gathering nothing but neglect. Its solitude, however, was shattered not by a scholar, but by tragedy. An apprentice mage, driven by reckless curiosity, finally pried open its weathered cover—only to be struck down in a bizarre and fatal accident, leaving the Grimoire horrified and alone once more. Bracing for the inevitable magical teleportation that would condemn it to another isolated corner of the world, the Grimoire was instead met with the soft creak of the library door. A mysterious girl named Riley stepped into the dim light, her presence cutting through the musty air of the archives. With a calm that belied the chaos of the previous event, she approached the ancient book and opened it, forging a contract where her predecessor had found only death. In that single, quiet moment, the Grimoire's three-hundred-year wait came to an end, binding its fate to a new and enigmatic contractor whose intentions remain as shadowy as the magic she now commands.