Introduction: "His blood creates legends. His kind will decide the fate of mankind."Troy is burning. A warrior, dying and forgotten, stumbles into a ruin-until something unnatural finds him. A parasite, ancient and alien, fuses with his broken body, reviving him. He is the first. The only one of his kind.But the power that courses through him is no gift. It is a curse. His strength is unmatched, his senses razor-sharp, his body near invulnerable. Yet, with each passing day, he feels something inside him slipping away.It is aware that Iason wants to be rid of it, and so distracts him-tempts him. To keep its control, at the cost of using its power.Iason is torn. To rid himself of the parasite would mean losing the very force that could destroy his enemies, but to keep it would cost him everything he once was.Trapped between two worlds-the warrior he was and the monster he's becoming-Iason feels the path ahead closing in. The question lingers: Can he save his humanity without abandoning the vengeance he craves? Or will he succumb to the power, becoming the very thing he swore not to be?Time is running out, and Iason must decide as he travels to find a cure-before the parasite consumes him entirely....