Bladebound: Ascension in a Mage-Dominated World
"The sword was long forgotten in a world ruled by arcane might. But one man will make them remember." Before the Mages came, the world belonged to warriors.
Steel clashed with steel. Kings bled in the dirt beside peasants. Power was earned with grit, not granted by glyphs.
Then the Awakening happened.
Mana flooded the land—raw, pure, corrupting. It twisted the balance. Gave birth to floating towers, cursed forests, and immortals cloaked in glowing sigils.
Magic won. Swords rusted.
And those without cores?
Forgotten.
On a different world—a dying Earth—Michael was nobody. A dropout. A fighter. A man chasing ghosts in alleyways, scraping through life one broken knuckle at a time.
Until the sky cracked.
Until he fell.
And awoke beneath the silver-leaved trees of Veyloris—weaponless, mana-less, powerless.
Or so they thought.
But the blade chose him. Not for his blood. Not for his talent.
For his rage.
And now, in a world that mocks steel, he will carve a path with it. Through fire, through betrayal, through death.
He will not kneel to mages.
He will become something worse than their fear.
He will ascend.