14 parts Ongoing MatureNaula was never meant to be part of the empire. The night her parents died, she was taken in by her father's brother-a man who ruled an underground legacy of silent killers. Raised within The Sovereign Veil, an elite assassination syndicate that had never fallen in decades, she was trained to be invisible, to be deadly, to be a shadow in the world of the living.
Alongside her adopted brother, Key, she perfected the art of death. They moved like ghosts, unseen and untouchable, carrying the weight of a legacy they never asked for. The world feared The Sovereign Veil, but inside its walls, Naula and Key feared something greater-themselves.
Key was loyal-too loyal. But in the dead of night, when the blood on his hands wouldn't wash away, she saw it in his eyes. The desperation. The need to be free. He was a soldier bound by duty, yet his heart longed to escape the chains of their bloodstained empire. He knew the curse that loomed over them-the whispered prophecy that if The Sovereign Veil ever fell, a reckoning would come. A fate worse than death.
Still, Key wondered. Could he be the one to burn it all down? Could he betray his own father-the man who raised him, trained him, made him into a weapon?
And if he did, what would Naula do?
She was not just another assassin. She was the assassin-the leader of The Phantom Regalia, the empire's most feared executioners. The shadows obeyed her command, and the world trembled at her name. If she stood with Key, she would be turning against everything she had been molded to be. But if she chose the empire, she would be sealing her brother's fate.
Blood or freedom. Duty or betrayal.
One choice will break the empire. One choice will break them.
And in the end, no one escapes The Sovereign Veil.
