"Sometimes, God doesn't have to be real. He just has to be mad."

The world did not die in the fire of battle. It vanished in silence, swallowed by the Umbra -- a grey, suffocating darkness that erased the borders of history. Adrian von Marcas is a living tomb. Once the great "Lion of the West," he is now nothing but a mountain of rusted iron and decaying flesh. Beneath his armor hides not a hero, but a functional psychopath whose mind fractured under the weight of a terrible mistake made at the Black Gates.

To survive, he rejected reality. Adrian lives inside his own hallucination, marching in step with the "Golden Legion" -- ten thousand ghosts he betrayed and left to die.

But to the boy he snatched from the jaws of death, Adrian is a Savior. Elias looks at the broken commander and sees a God. He prays to the "Golden Eye" burning in the General's socket, unaware of the terrifying truth. This light is not divine grace. It is the terminal stage of Shadow-rot, devouring Adrian's sanity with every step.

Adrian knows: the truth will kill them both. So he chooses the agony of the lie. He burns the remnants of his humanity to sustain a myth where the sun still shines.

This is the story of a monster who loved a child enough to become a legend...

He's not a hero.

He's not a god.

But a child believes in him -- and that's enough to save the world.

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• Publication Date: January 9, 2026
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• Print Length: 80 Pages
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