Ironford was built to endure.

  After the death of his sister Sera, once thought lost to the Black Plague, Guren and his squad learn a truth buried beneath doctrine and silence: Magitium, the red crystal that powers Ironford’s war machines, is not just fuel.

  It is a cure.

  The Black Plague, a mechanical infection that transforms humans into metallic, man-hunting horrors, can be halted. Reversed. Controlled. The salvation Ironford has been searching for has been in their hands all along.

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  And it is the very resource keeping their defenses alive.

  Faced with a revelation that could shatter military order and ignite rebellion, Ironford’s leadership makes a dangerous decision: the truth must reach the Alliance, a neighboring nation cut off since the war began. If the cure can be shared, humanity may have a chance beyond mere survival.

  But to deliver that hope, they must abandon the safety of the walls.

  Beyond Ironford lies a desert swallowed by plague storms and prowled by the Schreitpanzer's towering war constructs. The land itself is hostile, littered with fallen cities and feral Vorl?ufer, echoes of failed resistance.

  As Guren and his platoon lead an expedition into the unknown, hoping to share this vital information with the world, fractures within the United Forces deepen.