The Sword Who Would Be a Wand

Synopsis

In Astoria the sky is a lie, a barrier raised five hundred years ago to keep the Celestial Host from swallowing the world. Will Serfort has no mana, which in this world makes him less than a person, and yet at five he promised his prodigy friend Elfaria that they would climb the sorceress's tower together and see the true sunset. She reached the summit at record speed, the youngest of the five in history. He is in his final year at the academy, bottom of every list, carrying a sword in a school of wands, until a monster beyond the exam leaves him the only one still standing.