Fate knows how to make jokes. Yesterday you were the Empire’s most fearsome warrior, leading legions into battle—and today your homeland has decided you are no longer needed. They tossed you aside like a useless thing and took your life. A tragedy, isn’t it?
For someone—yes, but not for me. I never trusted the emperor and his lackeys. And somehow I found a way to return—to be reborn.
I came to in the body of a sickly young man being taken to his certain death. I am an aristocrat—sold into slavery by my own father. I’m riding in a cage together with other condemned men headed to a tower from which none get out. I can feel it: this tower will grind everyone nearby to dust. Everyone—except me. I will survive. Because I simply don’t have any other option.