Rise of a Champion: War-Broken

After surviving the brutal reforging that stripped her of her humanity, 257 emerges as a Vardengard; property of General Dain’s House and bound in lethal partnership with the volatile 168. Deployed into the savage meat grinder of the war against the Eastern Alliance, the pair is dropped deep behind enemy lines in North Korea with one mandate: carve out and hold 110 square kilometers of hostile territory by any means necessary. What begins as a mission of fire and blood quickly becomes something far more personal and corrosive. In the humid jungles and mountain caves, 257 learns the true cost of Vardengard existence; constant dehumanization, primal possession, and the suffocating weight of being both weapon and owned. While 168’s obsessive claim over her grows darker and more violent with every shared kill, 257 clings to the last flickering pieces of defiance and the strange. As the war escalates and Dain’s House calls them deeper into black operations, facing flipped Vardengard, Praevecti traitors, and the brutal politics of the Order, 257 must navigate the razor’s edge between survival and submission. Every lash, every command, every night in the den tests whether she will break completely… or rise as something far more dangerous than the champion they tried to forge. In a world that demands she be nothing more than a leashed monster, 257 begins to wonder if becoming the villain they want is the only way to ever be free.Book 2 of Rise of a Champion.The Prequels.