Ellis Price was summoned to vanquish the Dark Lord. He succeeds, but at a grave cost - his sanity and morality. Soon, his overwhelming power turned to fuel his newfound ambitions of world domination. Emerging as a cruel, erratic tyrant, he began his conquest. Any challenge thrown his way was destroyed. Any offer for peace was ignored. Surrenders laughed at. Anything that could threaten his rule, eliminated. Eventually, even the goddess that summoned him was shattered, her power absorbed. Now, the future looks bleak, and the starving, oppressed masses have long been forced to learn a bitter truth: no heroes are coming to save them. Hope has lived a hard life, and it does not seem like things are going to get better. Lost and alone, she lives in hiding, perpetually eluding the merciless grasp of a draconian law. Desperately, she tries to master the magic she inherited and to find herself amid a world shadowed by despair.