The victorious army marches forward, only to encounter a town cloaked in eerie silence. In the enemy capital, Loren and his companions learn their foes are ruled by a mad king. Even better? The circumstances of his madness are somehow connected to the destruction of Loren's former company. Now, Loren must face off against the man who started it all...

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1885.This is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre."I can only say that it does not pretend to b...

Loren spent years fighting for the highest bidder, drifting from one battlefield to the next as part of a mercenary band. All that changes when a battle goes horribly wrong, and Loren barely escapes alive. Alone and without so much as a coin to his name, Loren resolves to start a new life as an adventurer. The adventuring trade is a world unto itself, and Loren's cynical common sense clashes with the foolhardy courage of his new comrades. Meeting the enigmatic and beautiful priestess Lapis...

In order to repay his debt, ex-mercenary Loren parties up once again with cleric Lapis as adventurers for hire. Their latest mission is to escort the chief of state's only daughter, Shaena, back to her hometown. Along the way, however, their fellow adventurers keep inexplicably disappearing. Between their mysterious charge and the sudden appearance of an undead horde, Loren and Lapis might be in for their most complicated adventure yet!

One by one, the mercenaries who raised Loren fell in a terrible, bloody battle. No one else survived. Alone in a hard world with his wits, his sword, and no coin to his name, he hires himself out as an adventurer. But Loren's new party proves all too willing to run headlong into danger using him as their meat shield. Only Lapis, the party's sly priest, sees his true worth, just as Loren sees hers. Soon, they must rely on each other, or neither of them will live to see the end of their firs...

After disaster struck his mercenary band, Loren was broke and desperate. To make ends meet, he signed up as an adventurer, and that fateful decision landed him in the heart of a dangerous, labyrinthine ruin. After discovering that the ruins' ancient magic still functions, and that the place is mass-producing goblins of unnatural power, Loren, Lapis, and their new silver-rank companions team up to shut the place down for good. With a horde of bloodthirsty monsters ready to defend their home...

Former mercenary Loren survived his first adventure by the skin of his teeth. Now he's bound to Lapis the priest by an ever-growing debt. In the middle of his first attempt to repay her, they stumble on a young high-born girl, alone and unconscious in the woods. Her name is Scena, and she's a long way from home. The reward for her safe return will be substantial, but the road is full of dangers--including Scena. Her escorts keep dying, and if Loren and Lapis don't find out why, they may we...

The mercenary life was hard on Loren. Despite his enormous skill with a blade, he found himself alone and out of work. Joining up with a team of newbie adventurers seemed like the key to getting back on track, but their goblin hunt didn't go as planned. Thanks to his new comrades' bravado, Loren faced a disastrous ambush, only narrowly escaping along with the enigmatic priestess Lapis. Together, the two of them head deeper into an ancient labyrinth, seeking a way to escape from the perilou...

The mysterious man called Magna continues to hound Loren and his companions, who've had enough. Seeking to put a stop to him once and for all, they go digging in the ruins of the ancient magical empire. An ancient dragon might just have the information they seek, but first, they have to help a fellow mercenary...get hitched?! By letting her join them on their quest?!

Thinking it high time they meet the enigmatic chief of Loren's defunct mercenary company, Lapis proposes the party head to the northern reaches of the continent. While Loren is unenthused by the idea, the decision is quickly taken out of his hands when an urgent request hits the guild, sending them on a quest to the chief's last known location--the Justinian Empire!

Having made it to Lapis's home, Loren finds himself tasked by her mother, Demon Lord Judie, to destroy a dangerous artefact by throwing it into a nearby volcano. Unfortunately, an old foe has his sights on the artefact in question. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the volcano just so happens to be occupied--by an ancient dragon!

After momentarily fending off the evil god of wrath, Loren is finally reunited with Juris, his old chief. But there isn't much time for catching up, as Juris has yet another a job for him--one that will secure the means to destroy the evil god of wrath for good.