Carter arrives at the secret Library of Solomon, where its leaders are an angel and magical creatures. His mentor reveals Carter’s rare ability to cast magic with just his thoughts, forcing a deadly test from the Director to prove he is not a fraud.

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To survive a magical war, you need a teacher who is a force of nature. Gendric Valhallor is the combat instructor for the Library's new recruits. Known as "The Viking Berserker," he is an old, battle scarred warrior whose brutal training methods forge recruits into survivors.

Every soul has a native language. This is your magical Affinity.
It isn't determined by bloodline, but by your deepest connection to a language. Casting spells in your Affinity is natural, powerful, and comes without a cost.

Meet the Director of the Library of Solomon: a 6,000-year-old angel. Gabriel Nefret is the immortal son of the Library's founder, Solomon. After his father's sacrifice, Gabriel took command of the global resistance, preparing for the day the god king Nimrod would return.

Carter Cross is the protagonist of the fictional story CROSS. He is a 25-year-old man who discovers magic when attempting to save a woman's life. But awakening magic in such a sudden way, thrust him into a world he wasn't ready for.

Meet Killian Faust, the jaded veteran who rescues those who break from the Unity spell. As mentor to the new generation, he must turn traumatized kids into soldiers for an ancient war.

Magic has a physical price. Your body is the channel for its raw power.

Every spell has a cost, known as Backlash. Think of your body as a wire and magic as raw electricity. Push too much through an untrained body, and it will burn out from the inside.

After speaking a forgotten language, everyone he loves tries to kill him due to a psychic safeguard. Cornered and alone, his only hope is a mysterious mage who opens a portal in his closet, revealing an impossible new world.

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Imagine if all 7,000 languages were erased and replaced with one sterile tongue.

In the world of CROSS, this is reality. Thaylic is the artificial, magicless language forced upon the world by the villain. A weapon designed to sever humanity's connection to magic and control their minds.

In CROSS, words are literal power. The language you speak shapes your magic.

Magic is a conscious entity that humanity channels through language. English allows mages to create objects from nothing. Ancient Greek can heal the body. There are thousands more, each with their own unique abilities!

Hello! I’m Idris A. Day, the author of CROSS Mage of Babel. I’m 28. I currently live in the US (Midwest). And I’m a lifelong anime fan and manga reader. The inspiration for this story came from Full Metal Alchemist & Hunter x Hunter.

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