Burning Silver was a group of slayers that had joined Kong Shi a few years ago, arriving from the Blacksteel Shelter with a reputation that walked in ahead of them.
Each of them were geniuses.
Not the kind that talent scouters called geniuses to fill quotas. The real kind. The kind that had walked into the old battleground of Ravenskeep and come back out again. The kind that had set foot in Nightmare Desert and survived long enough to leave a mark on it.
Nightmare Desert.
A place that threatened the whole Stone Titan Alliance just by existing on the map.
When they first arrived in Kong Shi a myriad of forces moved quickly to recruit them. Some members were picked up. Individual talents absorbed into existing powers who made the right offer at the right time.
But the core force was different.
They turned down every power that came to them. Every banner. Every handshake. Every promise of resources and rank and protection.
