There was little truly known about Empress Marina, the Scarlet Tyrant of the Human Empire.
Her past had been erased, rewritten, and sealed away so thoroughly that even the most elite historians of the capital dared not speculate about the truth.
No one knew where she had truly come from, who had trained her, or what power she wielded behind her smile.
But there was one thing—one single, irrefutable truth—that every man, woman, and child on the continent knew.
Marina had killed her own father.
Yes—her own blood father, the former King of the Human Realm.
She had slain him in cold blood, personally cutting off his head and hanging it upon the palace gates for all to see.
That was how she had become Empress.
Not through inheritance.
Not through marriage.
But through blood.
And yet, those who thought she did it for greed or ambition couldn't have been more wrong.
