Eight-year-old Cole and Lopheses met in the mine. The chains tied the two boys together and tied them to each other's fate. They agreed to "go out together", but they didn't know that the outside world was more cruel than the mine - humans hunted magicians, sacrificed to forbidden places, and used other people's lives in exchange for strength and immortality.
Cole is a magician and Lopheses is a human. An escape caused the two to take completely different paths: Cole awakened his magic power in the wilderness and watched the people around him die one after another; Lopheses walked into the noble area, traded dignity and memory for stability, and sank into the abyss step by step.
Years later, the two reunited in the army. They try to go back to the past, but the rift is too deep. When the truth emerged, a duel in the snow severed the last bond. Cole led the "Legion of Sinners" composed of magicians to resist this man-eating world head-on, while Lopheses became the sword of the main war faction, vowing to destroy all magicians.
This is the story of how two people who crawled out of the same quagmire turned against each other. Not about the triumph of good over evil, but about how being alive itself changes a person.
Intention: When the world forces you to choose, who do you want to be? Should we protect the only light around us, or grab every hand we can to survive? Not all betrayals are motivated by malice, and not all kindness is rewarded. In the world of cannibalism, living itself is a stance. Everyone has a way back, but only a few have the courage to take that road.