Surviving the war was only the beginning.
The real hell is played in the mud.
Dvergar Ymir, a rugged veteran hardened in the massacres of the Draconic Wars, wakes up after a night of heavy drinking with a contract sealed in his own blood. He is now the owner of the worst Rupitz team in Aivoges and the heir to a lethal debt to the ruthless Rubber Syndicate.
Trapped in a pit where the crowd demands sacrifices and players are slaughtered for sport, Dvergar has only one way out: apply strict, cold military discipline to a group of hopeless outcasts. From an orc tusk-gatherer to a sadistic elf and a human expert in deception, The Echo of Aivoges must learn that Rupitz is no longer a simple contact sport, but a vanguard skirmish.
But in the Underworld Pit, brute force is not enough. As Dvergar orchestrates an intricate system of underground betting to buy their freedom, he will discover that the real carnage is decided in the private boxes of the high nobility of Uxama. There, the threads of fate are pulled by corrupt aristocrats who have turned the pain of others into the greatest of spectacles.
In a ruthless world where the supreme law of the trenches rules, "flesh is currency." How far will they be willing to bleed to buy their freedom?