Kairo Hayes is shot in Chicago and transported to a world where blood decides your fate. Betrayed and enslaved, he discovers a dark power: pain fuels his strength. Alone, hunted, and betrayed, Ash must survive, grow stronger, and reclaim his destiny.

Kairo Hayes thought he knew the streets—until a gunshot tore him and his best friend Lucas into a world ruled by magic and bloodlines. In this realm, nobles command kingdoms, commoners survive in small cities, and the lowest-blooded are enslaved.

Lucas, the manga-obsessed “Pretty Boy,” is hailed as royal blood and whisked away, leaving Kairo—renamed Ash—chained in a slave market. Betrayal awakens a terrifying power: the more he suffers, the stronger he becomes.

From bottom-tier slave to unstoppable force, Ash wields pain as power, forging a destiny the world never expected.