The peace that five wise kings had ironed decades ago seems as strong as ever, ready to last for ages still to come. But kings are getting old, and plans are already being made how the transition of power is to take place.
Les, an assassin, captured and tortured, thinks he received the gift of life from gods, a second chance. The gift takes a shape of a mysterious woman, but as he gets to know her, he cannot decide for sure if she truly is an instrument of gods, an angel, or a demon, or something much, much worse. In the end it matters little who she is as long as she helps him on his road to prevent the apocalypse of happing. For that road, covered by orcs and other monsters, is the road of his own redemption, even if it comes at the cost of his own life.
This is a story about Kar, a small planet showing as less than a dot in the waste and incalculable universe. But it’s the dot in space which may hold all the keys to the future and survival of the countless souls far beyond those that inhabit it, the keys to the future of the entire empire.
