BETRAYED. TORTURED. EXECUTED. BUT NOT DESTROYED. Once, Cassian Vale was the Empire’s golden prince, unmatched in power, loved by the people, feared by monsters. Until the day the three people he trusted most destroyed him. His brother. His fiancée. His best friend. They accused him of treason. They stripped him of his honor. Then they condemned him to a fate worse than death. Seven days. Seven days of torture for the world to watch. They broke his body. They shattered his soul. And on the seventh night, she drove the blade into his heart and called it justice. But death was not the end. When he opened his eyes again, he found a world of sword and sorcery, monsters and dungeons, where power devours the weak and a mysterious System bound to his soul by a contract written in ashes. He doesn’t remember his new name. He doesn’t know whose face he wears. But he remembers every drop of pain. AND HE REMEMBERS EVERY NAME OF THOSE WHO BETRAYED HIM. He was their greatest mistake. Now, he will be their nightmare.