Being branded a "Hero" is the most severe sentence imaginable. Offenders guilty of grave offenses are condemned to assume that title and conscripted into compulsory combat against the Demon Lords. These prisoners cannot die; if slain they are revived to fight again. The war is relentless, and each fallen hero returns with the same ferocity.
Former commander Xylo Forbartz of the Holy Knights, once a celebrated knight whose reputation was shattered, now leads a squad of condemned men on the battlefield. In those bleakest moments he encounters Teoritta, one of the planet"s mightiest weapons. "When every foe is vanquished, shower me with accolades and pat my head," she demands. To survive and exact vengeance on his betrayers, he bargains with a goddess and plunges headlong into a vortex of battle and scheming.
