Maid

For a thousand years, the name Sword Monarch disappeared from history. The world believes the warriors fulfilled their duty and vanished, leaving kings to rule. Few know the truth. The Sword Monarchs did not disappear. They were betrayed, hunted to extinction, and erased from history by the people they protected. Eighteen-year-old Garrick Arundel, the last heir of House Arundel, a family condemned as traitors seventeen years ago. Stripped of his birthright, denied an education, and forced to live as a servant inside the Royal Estate of Nythria, Garrick spends his life enduring humiliation. To everyone around him, he is nothing more than the son of criminals. Everything changes when Garrick risks his life to save a maid from the son of the kingdom’s High Chancellor. Instead of being rewarded, he is framed for attempted murder through fabricated evidence and condemned before the court without being allowed to defend himself. During an assassination arranged to silence him, Garrick escapes into tunnels beneath the palace and awakens the Monarch’s Blade, inheriting the soul and power of Asterion Valtherion, the First Sword Monarch. Branded the kingdom’s most wanted fugitive, Garrick is forced into a world of monsters, ruins, ruthless assassins, and forgotten sanctuaries. Guided by the warrior whose spirit dwells within the blade, he begins mastering sword techniques lost for a thousand years while uncovering the conspiracy that destroyed both his family and the Sword Monarch Order. But every step toward the truth draws the attention of the Veiled Circle, a secret organization that has manipulated kingdoms from the shadows for centuries. As ancient enemies awaken and the balance of the continent begins to crumble, Garrick must decide whether to remain a hunted outcast or become the warrior history was never meant to remember. The Last Sword Monarch has returned.