Evan Winter has mixed a lot of ingredients in this single story. We observe dragons and those who can control dragons. Then there is magic in the land that can turn humans into superhumans. Also, the enemy which has been attacking and pounding the people of Omehi for two hundred years has powers that surpass all of this stuff. All of this is the talk about the strong guys, there are also weak or the normal ones who are in majority but they have no role which they can play in this fight.
They can only get killed on the battlefield and if they are spared then they would be kept in the village for the breeding purpose only. Among these with no powers at all is Tau who has a sweet plan of his own to survive. He wants to get injured in the war during the last round after which he would be brought out of the battlefield and later would be kept for the breeding purpose only. Thus it is a preparation for a happy married life.
Things don’t go well in the war and all the friends or dear ones of Tau get killed because of a betrayal. The shift of plan is in order right after that and we can feel things like The Fires of Vengeance coming to the story. Tau is not running for his life after that rather he plans to become the best swordsman in the history of the planet.
He does not care whether he has to die more than 100000 times to achieve his one single motive. Prentice Onayemi gives a timid voice to Tau in the beginning when he was being presented as a coward and then when he becomes one of a kind warrior the tone shifts to the other side.