"Before me lies a dying kingdom. Behind me, a dead legacy.But within me… burns a future only I can forge."
🏰 Part I: The First Hammerfall
Months have passed.The King now walks tall, speaks clearly, and trains with the blade again.
But in the eyes of the court, he remains the same "dying fool."Only a few close allies know the truth:
General Merek – the last loyal commander of the Old Guard, secretly training a new elite force: The Black Vultures.
🔧 Technological Sparks — The Age of Flame Begins
Steam Mills and Water Gears:
The king builds a "miracle mill" in the capital using steam pressure and river power.
Productivity triples. Nobles try to shut it down… the noble who opposes him dies in a "hunting accident."
Black Powder Revolution 1.0:
He begins arming his secret force with matchlock muskets, using a factory disguised as a monastery.
Cannon technology is refined—lighter, faster-loading, deadly.
The "Ink Soldiers" – the Kingdom's first educated battalion:
Each soldier knows how to read, write, and use geometry and ballistics.
They swear loyalty only to the crown… not the nobility.
🛡️ Part II: The First Campaign – The Great Unification
The Eastern Dukes, drunk on power, begin raising their own banners, sensing the king is fading.They are wrong.
"Let them come," Karan-Edric says. "We will bury the past with them."
⚔️ The Battle of Drel's Ford:
The new elite army led by General Merek uses smoke bombs, ambush trenches, and coordinated musket fire to devastate a 12,000-man noble army.
The nobles are captured and publicly executed by their own soldiers—recruited into the king's army with better pay and food.
The East is his.
☠️ A Dark Memory Returns
Suddenly, the king is hit by a vision—a memory that is not his:
Fires consume the capital.
A giant masked figure—identical to him—stands atop the tower with a mechanical staff.
Behind him, armies with glowing armor and metal beasts crush everything.
Then… the voice:
"You are not the first. You are the echo."
🔥 Part IV: The World Shakes
Rumors spread of a king who is now young, who commands lightning and steam, whose armies do not bleed.
Foreign spies vanish trying to learn his secrets.
The western republics propose trade and alliance... or are they stalling?
"So… he's returned. But can he finish what he started?"
👑 Ending Line of Book II:
"Let the world watch in fear. For Virelia will no longer beg for survival.It will rise… and all shall kneel to the King Reforged."