For the Most Beautiful Tomorrow: Part One

In 2035, World War III broke out. A billion people died in the fires of war. After volcanoes erupted across Japan, ash blanketed most of the Earth's skies, and a global deep freeze forced humanity to scrape by underground. In 2045, the ash began to clear, and the survivors emerged from below ground. Peace was not waiting for them, but all-out chaos.

The French Progressive Republic established its dominance over Europe. Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte's boots trod Italian soil as he signed an edict establishing slave camps. The old world order of nations had been utterly destroyed, replaced by warlords, landlords, and armed strongmen. Slavery was legal again because productivity had fallen so low that nothing could function without slaves.

In 2056, Crete Valentino was born to a working-class family in southern Italy. On the day he was born, France held a military parade in Rome.

He wasn't a hero. He was just someone who wanted to survive. But a man who wanted to survive, together with a group of people who wanted the same, carved out a small place among the ruins where ordinary people could live.

This book simply records how a group of people crawled through the mud, making a path until they reached the morning when that flag was raised.

If you're tired of stories where the protagonist breezes through everything, give this one a try.

For the Brightest Tomorrow