A simple tale of a man (or a demi-god) who has roamed the planet for eighteen thousand years. His ultimate purpose is unknowable. He dies and is then reborn, sometimes where he fell, other times he is reborn … elsewhere.
We join Unute (or B as he’s sometimes called) early in the 21st century, working for a clandestine special forces unit where is talent for superhuman mayhem and invulnerability are put to the right use by the right side – who are less concerned than they should be that Unute often kills members of his own team during his occasional berserker rages.
And so Unute endures across time, his existence leaving scorch marks throughout human history, his lifespan only occasionally interrupted by the appearance of a homicidal immortal pig. …
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