A shadow of vengeance is cast over the land of Nerus. Amidst failing peace in lawless Sector 6, rising stakes between the criminal underworld and the government, the Hernz Refinery is sieged by mutants. Riko, Sachiko, and Maku find themselves under the wing of Hyatt, an Elite Guard of the Mafia, and deploy on their second mission from the Brushchev family. Somewhere dark and hidden, a young girl tends to her armour and blade... Astra inclinant, sed non obligant; a bygone land dazzled in trickling starlight, standing a solitary warrior, in hand, a destiny offset by six millennia. The splendid lands of the Pangea bridged to heavens by a jumping stream, divine knowledge disseminating throughout feeble man. Each teardrop is as but a lone memory, but a gleaming of a thousandth, pervading man to arm hubris that of a concupiscent dynast. Length: apr. 85,000 words. Best experienced in white on black 'dark mode.' Cover illustration by Elena Krutenko. Masckerdoom