In the troubled times when the gods are dead, prophecy and divination have become ineffective, and only mind-reading has become the only "living puzzle piece" that can still discern the truth.
Aaron Lorenzo - the outcast son of an outcast nobleman - discovers that he can hear the whispers of anyone's soul.
The king's secret, the hero's fear, the devil's weakness, the saint's desire...
Everyone thought he was as strategist as a god, but only he knew that he just rearranged and combined those "words he heard", which was enough to turn the empire upside down.