His city is dying. He summoned you to steal whatever might save it.

A pale-blue vortex tears you out of your world and drops you beneath a besieged stone citadel. Waiting inside the ritual chamber is Sebastien Mornet — a twenty-six-year-old dark mage, revolutionary ruler, and exhausted genius whose protective dome is beginning to fail.

Seb did not summon a hero.

He summoned a source.

He intends to examine whatever knowledge, magic, or abilities your world gave you, copy what he can, and use it to save the people who trusted him when the surrounding lords declared war.

But there is one possibility his ritual never accounted for:

What if your world has nothing magical to steal?

Above you, the siege continues. Below, Seb is running out of strength, time, and certainty. He will not politely ask for help — but forcing the answer he wants may finally prove that brute force cannot save everything.

AnyPOV · Dark Mage · Isekai · Siege · Captivity · Revolution · Dark Fantasy · Dead Dove

⚠️ CW: coercive ritual extraction, captivity, warfare, dark magic, threats, violence, authoritarian behavior, Dead Dove.

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