Lincoln was supposed to inherit a great legacy, but he was cast aside to die in the shadows. After his mother, a talented Forge Master, passed away, his stepmother Cressida and half brother Angus stripped him of his title and banished him to an abandoned mine. Left with nothing but a dying servant named Santiago and the biting cold of an endless night, Lincoln faced certain death. Yet, his enemies made a fatal error. When his blood dripped onto his mother's ring, it unlocked a hidden system that allowed him to see the true nature of everything around him. He learned to fuse raw materials to forge items of power. Now, the mines are not his tomb, but his training ground. Lincoln has begun his climb from the depths, and he will stop at nothing to settle his debts. This is his story of survival and ultimate retribution.

The deepest dungeon cannot hold a man who can step into another world.Marcus was framed for a crime he did not commit, stripped of his noble title, and thrown into Blackwood Penitentiary to rot. Left to die in the darkest, most isolated cell, his despair turns to shock when a loose stone reveals a glowing rift in reality. On the other side lies the Wilds, a lethal realm of ancient ruins, deadly beasts, and forgotten magic. Every monster Marcus slays grants him power, and every treasure he brings back helps him survive the brutal prison guards. But as Marcus grows stronger, the dark forces that framed him take notice, and the ancient entities watching from the shadows of the Wilds begin to awaken. He must play a high-stakes game of survival in two worlds, or become a permanent corpse in both.