No-Rank Healer Betrayed by My Party Returns as the Archmage

Retired archmage Gregori has the life he wants at Royal Health: a workshop of broken things to fix, girlfriend Lyra at his side, and Cali, a talking cat who treats his tea like a personal offense.

Luca arrives with a battered shield and the same self-erasing manner Gregori once had, a boy everyone said had no future even though his magic tells another story.

Someone sealed those abilities to keep him powerless, and when a second victim appears, Gregori sees that his own stolen years were part of a much larger design.

He can still give them tools, training, and a place to belong, yet the ones responsible are watching the village and mean to bury what they did.

After months spent relearning how to enjoy being home, Gregori will need that unlikely family, a few stubborn inventions, and one angry cat to bring her back.