GLOSSARY Malitan - the Empire's term for a city LOCATION: BLIMORK (THE EMPIRE) Malitan: Khaerina POV: LEA XIMIS Falling asleep has always been a part of Lea’s daily struggle. Her mind is always on overdrive. As a tinkerer, she always thinks of all the possibilities of weaponry. She thinks about cost-effective materials, how to make the product durable, and making it fit the individual’s preference. Her thought processes don’t stop there. Since she also buys ready-made weapons, she always attempts to reverse-engineer them. Once she understands how a manufactured weapon works, she then can integrate her own theories and upgrade the current weapons. She doesn’t sell it to the industry. She keeps those tinkered weapons to herself unless someone would strike a deal with her. Lea doesn’t go out of the house that often. She coops up in her room busy with her own world. She would only go out when she has to eat, buy some weapons or materials from Arsenal Wares, or when she

GLOSSARY: Estion: Nitronia's term for a city Crysalite: A crystal-like piece of rock POV: DAVE PANDIMUR LOCATION: NITRONIA ESTION: KHYPTOPOLIS (THE CAPITAL) “I’M NEVER HIKING FRIGUS PEAK EVER AGAIN!” DAVE GROANED AS HE MASSAGED HIS SORE MUSCLES Dave Pandimur. A pale-skinned man about five foot ten with lean body structure is outlined by his body-hugging rustic brown shirt and midnight black tights under the lightweight aluminum faulds. Dave has a chiseled face, snow-colored slicked-back undercut hair, rounded eyebrows, close-set teal-colored eyes, a straight nose, wide lips, and mildly calloused yet delicate hands. An apprentice in training under the supervision of the Supreme Frost Nathania, often called Dave, is always considered general by the public out of reverence. Nathania, the Supreme Frost, recently initiated the Elite Program and coincidentally, but unsurprisingly, made Dave the leader. What was surprising to him was Nathania only selected four frosts, appre