This world does not reward heroes. It punishes them.
Publicly. Brutally. Permanently.
Welcome to a kingdom where saving lives gets you arrested and being called a hero is just a fancy way of saying you are about to die slowly for someone else’s benefit.
Our story starts with a nobody. A broke, exhausted, half-alive man who looks like life already beat him in a fight and then asked for a rematch.
He is not special. Not chosen. Not blessed. No glowing destiny. No secret lineage revealed in epi