The Ascendant, by: naivefantasywriter_11

The heavens had already decided Karnan’s fate.

He should have remained weak forever, faded into obscurity beneath brighter constellations, broken beneath the weight of an impossible debt, died nameless in an alley, another discarded failure of the celestial arts.

After all, his star was too far away. Too distant for its light to reach him.Too weak to let him cultivate. Too faint to grant him even the most basic celestial techniques.

Cast out by the clan he had called family — a family that now wished him gone — and rejected by the girl he loved, Karnan clung to a single hope: that if he repaid everything spent on him, he might earn his place back.

But, is it that easy?