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Chapter 1 - PROLOGUE – "Ashes & Glass"

(From the whispers of the city)

"They say he was born under a blood sky, crying

smoke instead of tears. That the moment his

lungs filled with air, the world exhaled something

ancient…and dangerous."

The rain fell soft that night, not like a storm—

more like the city was weeping for something it

knew it was about to lose. New Makurdi had

always been a place of paradox. Neon gods

danced on rusted rooftops. Ancient whispers

echoed in silicon halls. A city caught between

empires, balancing on the tip of a needle made

of light and rot.

And in the middle of it all...

Him.

Mr. Black.

baptized him with. Not for his skin, or his suits,

or his secrets—but for what followed him:

silence, smoke, shadows, and salvation.

Some say he used to be a priest. Others? That

he was a ghost in the war who just never

stopped fighting. But the truth was simpler and

more complicated. He was the last of his

bloodline—a family that once ruled art, code,

and the soul of New Makurdi. Now, ashes. Only

two sisters left, five children between them,

and one man—carrying a dead legacy like a

crown of fire.

By day, he built dreams. His animation studio?

The best in the region. Legends in motion. He

gave color to a city too used to grey.

By night, he moved green. Marijuana—illegal,

sacred, forbidden. Not poison, but poetry. He

treated it like a ritual, a rebellion, a gift. And in

this city of contradictions, he was both Messiah

and Menace.

No one knew how he did it—how he wore

peace like perfume and war like a second skin.

He was calm, erotic, dangerous, divine. A god

among mortals. And he knew it. Not with

arrogance, but acceptance. Like fire knowing it

burns.

He gave to the poor, stole from the rich,

rewrote laws with actions not ink. A flirt with a

thousand hearts, but loyal to one. She who

knew his demons, kissed them, and stayed. The

city feared him, worshipped him, whispered

about him in late-night cafes and high-rise

boardrooms.

But the thing about legends?

They're always hunted.

And when the wolves come, when glass

shatters and blood speaks louder than truth—

the world will remember not what he was

called…

…but what he became.

"In the end, there will be no gods. Only the Son."

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