Length5h 53m
About this audiobook
Gramis Argento has just earned the highest honor his people can bestow. Then the sky tears open, and beings of impossible power step through. The Attani offer alliance. The elders kneel without debate. Gramis volunteers to serve in their Elite Guard, determined to learn their weaknesses from the inside. Instead, he becomes complicit. He kills to earn his rank. He stands watch during genocide. He counts his justifications the way other men count scars. When he discovers the Attani’s divine power is stolen, not born, the lie holding the Empire together becomes his weapon. With rebels from every conquered race in the galaxy, Gramis plans the impossible: an assault on the throne of a god-king. But the student he once trained now stands between him and the tyrant, blades drawn, faith unbroken. Where loyalty is tested, freedom is paid for in blood, and the hardest battle is the one fought against what you’ve allowed yourself to become.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy, Science Fiction
Length5 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMay 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
11 Opening Credits
13 13 Chapter 12: The Seer
22 Chapter 1: The Unbroken Blade
14 14 Chapter 13: The Throne Room
33 Chapter 2: Court Of Flame And Blood
1515 Chapter 14: The Tyrant Falls
44 Chapter 3: The Schedule
1616 Chapter 15: The Broken Blade
55 Chapter 4: The Graveyard Sky
1717 Chapter 16: The Aftermath
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66 Chapter 5: The Entar
1818 Epilogue: So This Is Where My Journey Ends
77 Chapter 6: The Bleeding
1919 About the Author
88 Chapter 7: Earth
2020 Also From Michael Mueller
99 Chapter 8: The Strike
2121 PREVIEW: RISE OF A HERO
1010 Chapter 9: The Corridors
2222 Rise of a Hero Sample Chapter
1111 Chapter 10: Freedom for Vallalia
2323 Closing Credits
1212 Chapter 11: The Cost
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