Crown of Starfire

Noah Sterling was once the pride of the Sterling clan, a prodigy who awakened a Black Gold Core at just thirteen. A fire later drained that power, branding him a Dead Core and turning him into an outcast. At his awakening test, his fiancée turned away from him, his cousin humiliated him, and he lost his family inheritance. Everything changed when his mother's ring stirred to life and the spirit Orion revealed that half of his core had been stolen while the other half had sealed the Eclipse Flame, a blaze capable of leveling a city.