Nights in the Slovenian mountains always brought a bone-chilling cold, but for Revalya Mauna Girsang, that chill was the only silent witness to fifteen years of quiet, protective affection.
Growing up in a grand mansion buried beneath thick fog and eternal snow, Mauna was raised by her maternal grandparents. To the outside world, she was the sole legitimate heir to Obsidian Aegis—a multi-trillion-dollar private military and security company operating in executive protection, tactical intelligence, and secret defense technology research with independent satellite access.
To protect their only grandchild from the dangerous enemies who had killed both her parents in a tragic expedition fourteen years ago, her grandparents made the most painful decision: isolating Mauna in Slovenia. They forged Mauna with the finest private education, ranging from diplomatic etiquette to basic self-defense tactics so she could eventually defend herself. In fact, the heavy decision to sever all ties, communication channels, and official documents linking Mauna to the extended Girsang family in Indonesia was intentionally made by her grandparents not out of hatred, but as a shield. They knew full well that if the enemies of Obsidian Aegis caught wind of the Girsang family's existence, that ordinary family in Indonesia, along with Mauna herself, would immediately become targets for cold-blooded assassins. Cracks in that protective wall began to form when Mauna turned nineteen.
One night, using her acquired digital prowess, Mauna successfully hacked into her mother's encrypted data vault stored on her grandfather's private server. There, Mauna discovered the truth that had been lovingly kept secret from her: an investigative file revealing the identity of the external enemy syndicate responsible for her parents' deaths, as well as the sincere intentions of her grandparents in hiding the existence of the Girsang family to safeguard both sides.
Realizing that her grandparents were aging and constantly battered by the pressure of closing threats, Mauna refused to just sit back and be the one who needed protecting. Armed with a passport, her father's encryption key, and the determination to stand on the front lines, Mauna engineered an escape from Slovenia to Indonesia. She intended that upon her return, she would grow stronger and be capable of protecting the entire Obsidian Aegis network as well as her grandparents. The moment her feet touched the warm, bustling soil of her father's homeland, Mauna stepped into a new chapter of her life. Beneath the looming shadow of Obsidian Aegis enemies beginning to trace her path to Southeast Asia, Mauna embarked on a daring mission; no one knew what the future held, but Mauna had made up her mind, and nothing could stand in her way.