At the academy’s grand Midwinter Banquet, Arthur is publicly stripped of his title, humiliated by the wife he spent five years protecting, and replaced by her returning first love.​ To everyone else, he is nothing more than a useless man living off Silverleaf Academy. No one knows the truth—that Arthur once sealed away his godlike power to save the continent, and the academy itself has only survived because of him.​ So when his wife throws him out with nothing left to lose, Arthur finally ends the contract that bound him to humanity.​ And the moment he walks away, the entire kingdom begins to collapse. And the moment he walks away, the entire kingdom begins to collapse.