The Wizard in the High Tower (Chapter 1) (Patreon)

A routine infiltration turns into a massacre. An elite strike force is wiped out. Their commander is taken alive. The rebellion teeters on the edge of collapse. But from the ashes of failure, fate forges an unlikely alliance: two powerful mages—bitter rivals bound by circumstance—thrust into a conspiracy that will shatter everything they thought they knew. Together, they will uncover the buried truths of their world… and awaken forces that could unmake it.