Sir Ash was the supreme commander of the renowned Gray Ash Imperial Knights, the most decorated frontline vanguard of the Loren Empire. When the corrupt Grand Inquisitor orchestrates a treasonous conspiracy to seize royal power, Ash is framed for the emperor's poisoning, stripped of his knightly honors, and exiled into the lawless subterranean labyrinth known as the Dungeon Kingdom, a colossal subterranean continent from which no exile has ever returned. Left for dead amidst eldritch horrors and cutthroat penal outposts, Ash does not despair. Relying on thirty years of ruthless battlefield conditioning, master-class swordsmanship, and ironclad discipline, he begins uniting rogue mercenaries, exiled beastkin warriors, and disgraced mages into an unstoppable vanguard. Discovering that the subterranean labyrinth holds the primordial relics of an ancient titan civilization, the exiled knight builds an independent subterranean sovereign power, preparing to march his army back to the surface to claim ultimate retribution....more