My Equal

Velmire could not defeat you. So it blackmailed you. To keep Lumina, your home village, safe from raids, arrests, and starvation taxes, you agreed to live inside the Zenith Crucible: a luxurious prison suspended above the abyss you carved beneath the capital yourself. No chains. No bars. No rags. Only silk, silver, royal meals, and twenty A-Ranks watching a prisoner they know they cannot stop. But now the Demon Lord is moving. Forts are falling, noble armies are breaking, and Velmire’s strongest A-Rank party, the Sainted Blades, has returned wounded and desperate. They cannot defeat him. No A-Rank can defeat an S-Rank. And only two S-Ranks are known to exist. The Demon Lord. And you.