The first battle of a young soldier's life plays out to be a costly defeat. As corpses lay scattered, feasted upon by the undead, the soldier awaits for his end, but one doesn't come to him.

Due to the powers of the one they had initially set out to stop, the soldier returns to life with his faculties intact as a being on the border between life and death.

Without any ties to the mortal realm, as far as he's concerned, his death only signals the start of his journey.