MaggyHolroyd
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“Why they chose me, I will never know. I have no strength, no muscle to offer. Out here, brawn beats brains. We are warriors not thinkers. Our lives depend on the ability to fight, not the ability to reason and yet, here I am Marcus ‘the nerd’, a True Blad. Blood brother to our strongest fighter, Antonius – my best friend. We are both blessed and cursed by our brotherhood. We left the Empire and now we can never go back. Now we must fight.” Best friends Marcus and Antonius have grown up together safe and secure within The Empire, sustained by the crop, which provides the air The Empire’s chosen breathe. Opposites, Antonius provides the strength and Marcus the intellect, they have been set to work together in a laboratory deep in the basements alongside the beautiful Aelia. Then one night Antonius disappears. Marcus and Aelia are determined to find him. Their search leads them outside, into a subterranean world that they never knew existed, populated by a band of mutant brothers who rely on each other for their survival. Antonius has joined them to fight against The Empire’s cyborgs sent out by the Senate. The Empire’s leaders are determined to seek out and destroy the mutants. Aelia and Marcus must decide whether to join the underworld of Antonius and the Brotherhood, never to return to the comfort and safety of the Empire.When the Brothers leader, Tiberius, is killed, the search for a new leader, the Patrician, begins. Who is destined to lead them all pout of the darkness?…