What is the price of dreams? Raised in a city of adventurers, Brimstone is about to find out.  Dreaming of becoming a member of Regalia’s Adventurer’s Guild, Brian wants to be a legend to compete with that of his father, the great Stone Knight. Despite his mom’s warnings of the cruel reality behind an adventurer’s work, the boy can’t help but nickname himself ‘Brimstone’ and eagerly await for his fifteenth birthday. At fifteen years old, he will get access to the System and his first Skill. Contrary to his expectations, however, his first skill is nothing like what he expected. Instead of flashy swordplay, supernatural body-strengthening miracles, or even magical blasts of energy, what he gets is a mysterious presence that permeates wherever he goes. Can that kind of Skill make a legend like that of his father? Read as the boy gathers his friends, fights monsters, makes mistakes, and learns the stone-cold reality of what it means to be a true Adventurer. [Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] (nov/2023)