Coal among the ashes

The point of the blade is his monk. My prayer is in the tank of wounds. My freedom is someone else's end.
The Empire, with its tyrannical and merciless rule, the brutal slavery of the Enlightened, the elite and cold Masked soldiers who live only to serve and kill for the Empire, who destroy families and destroy hopes, is not a place where the flames Even a breath can make resistance before it is extinguished and buried.
Disobedience to the Empire is met with death. Those who have sworn their blood and flesh to the Emperor risk losing loved ones and everything they hold dear. Laia's life is turned upside down when her brother is arrested for treason. Elias himself seeks to change his hated life of Maska. Their fates are intertwined... Their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself...