Episode 1: The Lion of Nubian Bastion
In the cold ruins of a dying world, Crux Khan has spent his life preparing to be a weapon. A son forged in war, he stands in the shadow of his father—King Khan, the Butcher of Socostra—a ruler who measures loyalty in blood and obedience in body count.
When Crux executes a prisoner in the Black Citadel’s throne room, he proves his strength, his resolve—and kills the last piece of the boy he once was.
The reward? A command of his own.
The Black Vultures—the most feared warriors in King Khan’s army—are sent on what should be a simple mission: eradicate a High Society outpost buried in the Himalayan wasteland. To the soldiers gathered around their last campfire, the outcome is inevitable. They are the best. They are invincible.
Until the ambush.
The Black Vultures are hunted, slaughtered, erased. The enemy is unseen, untouchable, moving like ghosts in the blizzard. The mission was never a battle—it was an execution. One by one, Crux’s men fall, their blood staining the ice, their names lost to the wind.
And when Crux—the Prince of War—is struck down, he is not killed.
He is taken.
Dragged into the darkness, his body barely clinging to life, he awakens in the hands of an unknown force. A woman watches him from the shadows. A beast with golden, glowing eyes lurks just beyond the firelight. And the world he thought he knew begins to unravel.
Betrayed. Hunted. Alone.
Crux has a choice: remain his father’s blade… or become something else entirely.
The war is far from over.
And the hunt has only just begun.
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