A dying world. A ruined body. A debt that should not be his.
That is the reality Alden wakes to when he opens his eyes. The memories in his head are not his. The scars on his skin do not belong to him. And the things in the dark that watches him... definitely not his.
Now trapped in the body of a fallen arena fighter, Alden is thrown into a life ruled by blood and debt.
He does not know why he was brought here. He does not know what hunts beneath the streets, nor what lurks in the night. And he does not know what lies at the core of this dying world. But in the cracks between terror and desperation, Alden discovers whispers of cultivation, strange powers, and truths waiting to be unearthed.