
Web serial by jacobk
The island nation of Yashima is in chaos. Armies march to war, pitting cousin against cousin for power. Sword saints grow deadlier with every battle even as muskets flood the country and transform the average soldier into a lethal threat. One woman towers over the era. Known as the blood-soaked flower of the battlefield, it is said that to see her is to risk madness, and to fight her is to die. Some claim she draws her power from the blood of vanquished foes. Listening to the rumors, the narrator can't help but feel that a plan to secure a comfortable administrative post has somehow gone awry.