"Give me one more life... Just one more life. This time, I will not merely fight; I will win."
The legendary Samurai, "Black Tiger," betrayed and drawing his final breath, offered this bargain to the universe. And the universe turned its cosmic gears for him.
Yet, the place where he opened his eyes was not his old world of falling cherry blossoms. He is now Aetherion. A new prisoner in a brutal realm ruled by metal, where landmasses sway above an infinite void, clinging to one another with massive, rusted chains.
He was born in Iron Tooth Keep, the freezing fortress of the North, within the lands of Aquara, the ruler of ice and cold. But fate had played a cruel trick: Born into the heart of the ice, this child carried the searing fire of the forbidden god Ignis in his veins, and an undying glint of magma in his eyes.
Trapped within the fragile body of a child struggling to walk, yet possessing the mind of an adult war strategist, Aetherion now faces his toughest battle. Under the shadow of his father, Commander Zero—the "Unbreakable Shield of the North"—he must both hide his cursed fire and survive in this world reeking of rust and blood.
The creaking of chains echoes. The void is hungry. And a child, wielding a wooden sword, challenges his destiny.