
Web serial by gbolgurov
Roen Ashveil was the Archmage of the Crimson Tower — the most powerful mage to ever live. He spent three centuries fighting wars, burying friends, and shaping kingdoms. Then he died alone on a bad chair. The next second, he wakes in his nineteen-year-old body with all his memories intact and one firm decision: he will not be the hero this time. He is opening an inn. Unfortunately, Millhaven is not the kind of town that lets people stay uninvolved. There are debts crushing good families, fields where the soil has started to die, and nobles who smile while tightening chains. People keep finding their way to Roen's door — a sharp-tongued merchant woman, a boy too clever for the life he was born into, a tired guild captain watching the southern road. Every spell risks exposure. Every kindness becomes attachment. And beneath the quiet fields, something old is beginning to wake.