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| It all started with the man called Repenter. Ashe Stelfire started out as a selfish and cruel person. The worst person for the job of helping Avril Enzali, his long-lost daughter, to save her goddess from eternal imprisonment in an extra-dimensional dungeon of unbreakable ice. Things did not go as planned. Avril and Ashe both suffered great harm. The daughter far worse than the father. All at the whims of Corsis, who toyed with them from the periphery of a dark empire’s rise to power. Before he could embark on the quest to free his daughter’s goddess, Ashe had to fight through a hellish world war to reclaim the means to heal Avril’s wounds. Ashe changed along the way. He lost his innate pyromancy, transformed himself with a transfusion of silver blood, and claimed the legendary Retributor axe. And he donned the monstrous bronze mask fashioned from the face of his old mentor. Of far greater significance, he put aside his greed for fortune hunting as he learned of the magnitude of Corsis’s threat. He strove to be better. To repent. He and his allies achieved a bitter victory in the final battle, where the means to heal Avril was at last recovered. Although they triumphed in that smaller goal, they still lost the war against the dark empire backed by Corsis. Ashe, Avril, and several of their friends fled to another world in the aftermath. A brighter world. A world with the entrance to a certain ice maze. Ashe and Avril will at last embark on the quest to break out the imprisoned goddess. One they had originally intended to perform by themselves. But the past hard years have imparted another hard lesson. When it comes to the Game and all the things it touches, going it alone is folly. They will need help. Find out how they get it in The Breakers. Art by Hokunin. |
