Darkhell, the black sorcerer, is the recurring villain of the Legendary universe. During this prequel, which begins 100 years before volume 1 of the Legendary, we follow the adventures of the one he was in his youth. Life is hard for magicors, sentenced to the death penalty by the holy order of Arkanis for illegal practice of magic. But it is without counting on the Ultima brotherhood. This group of heroes refuses to let the populations suffer the wrath of these inquisitors and therefore takes responsibility for systematically releasing the innocent from the scaffold. But there will be a price to pay for all this violence...