Beren spent his entire life fighting for the Empire. He won impossible wars, protected the people he loved, and sacrificed everything without asking for anything in return.

His reward was betrayal.

Executed by the very empire he saved, Beren awakens in the past with one decision already made—this time, he's retiring.

No more battlefields. No more blind loyalty. No more living as everyone else's weapon.

But as the hero who held the empire together quietly walks away, old enemies emerge, hidden conspiracies unravel, and the people who once discarded him become desperate to bring him back. The longer Beren refuses to return, the faster the empire he built with his own hands begins to collapse.