The Unholy Clad in Crimson

Baldwin once dreamed of becoming a hero. As a child, he admired the monster slayers who protected the realm. Their courage, their strength, their sacrifice—it all seemed noble. But reality proved far different. Now working as a lowly porter for those same warriors, Baldwin has seen their cruelty, their arrogance, and their indifference to suffering. The heroes he idolized are not so different from the monsters they hunt. After a long day of humiliation and thankless labor, Baldwin reaches his breaking point. The dreams that once guided him now feel hollow, and the path he followed since childhood no longer makes sense. With nothing left to prove to men who never respected him, he makes a quiet but dangerous decision—to leave their shadow behind and carve his own road, no matter where it leads. Then an accident changes everything. In a single cruel twist of fate, Baldwin becomes the very monster he once swore to destroy. Branded, hunted, and cast out by the world he once admired, he is forced to confront an impossible question: how can a monster become a hero? To chase the dream he still refuses to abandon, Baldwin must walk a path no one else dares to take—one that may cost him his humanity, or redefine what it truly means to be a hero.