The Last Lost King

Ryland Voss has spent three brutal years chained as a slave from the northern mines, subjected to the mockery and humiliation of the arrogant Valkair nobility. Branded as a criminal guilty of treason and forbidden bloodline, he is dragged before the war council for execution. However, when forced to undergo imperial trials designed to crush him, Ryland effortlessly lifts the sacred trial stone and bends ancient stone beasts to his will without using magic. The empire soon uncovers a terrifying truth: Ryland is not a common slave, but the rightful heir and last surviving king of the fallen kingdom of Ashkar, whose heavy Star Iron chains were never meant to punish him, but to seal a lost royal crown. Teaming up with a courageous saintess who dares to question the council's corruption, Ryland rises from the dust to shatter his shackles, reclaim his ancestral power, and face down the empire that tried to bury him.