《Quintessence anomaly detected, Spirit mutation threshold exceeded, Attribute requirements met. Congratulations. You are eligible to obtain the Skill: Knife-Throwing. Do you accept?》 These were the words Rylan Cloudgift had been waiting to hear all his life. They were supposed to be his salvation, his escape from a mundane live as an indentured servant on an island in the vast cloudsea. His way out of the debt he owed the Thistlethorns—the noble family that had found him as a baby. So why did he wake up in a cell? Why was there talk of the Thistlethorns binding him in their service through a magical contract? And who sent him the mysterious note that tells him to run if he treasures his... his jewels?!