While Mt. Vesuvius rumbles ominously, Pompeiian Councilor Valerius needs assistance in carrying out rituals to safeguard the city from your wrath of the fire-god, Vulcan. But his plan is far from benevolent, as he cares much less about quieting the volcano than taming it and taking the energy for himself. Right now it’s up to Horatius, a previous legionnaire and gladiator, to prevent Valerius’s sinister rites from arriving at fruition. But with Vesuvius looming on the city-and the useless rising to guard the corrupt councilor-the warrior may have fled a stressed past only to have got into a doomed upcoming…