The Wicked Nine.
Nine villains were sentenced to die. Death didn’t take. Mookie, Nilo, Nokio, Sylas, Zyarie, Swade, Malaki, Ajéí, and Ijeoma awaken after their executions inside a chamber that shouldn’t exist—with their wounds healed,....
Nine villains were sentenced to die. Death didn’t take. Mookie, Nilo, Nokio, Sylas, Zyarie, Swade, Malaki, Ajéí, and Ijeoma awaken after their executions inside a chamber that shouldn’t exist—with their wounds healed, their lives restored, and an impossible System speaking inside their heads. It offers power. Abilities. Evolution. And one terrifying condition: The Wicked Covenant. Someone arranged their deaths. Someone brought them back. And whoever controls the System expects the Nine to become something far more dangerous than the criminals the world already feared. There’s only one problem. These aren’t heroes. They don’t trust easily. They don’t forgive. And they damn sure don’t like being controlled. As enemies begin hunting them and supernatural abilities awaken, the Nine discover their resurrection is connected to a conspiracy stretching far beyond the people who ordered their executions. Every victory makes them stronger. Every upgrade reveals another piece of the truth. And every answer raises an even worse question: Were they resurrected to save the world…or become the monsters who conquer it? Nine villains. One blood debt. One System. And somebody made the worst mistake imaginable. They gave The Wicked Nine a second life.