In Recent Times
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# IN RECENT TIMES
## Synopsis
Three powerful rulers once governed three realms in peace — until one accidentally released Inferath, a demon dragon sealed away for three hundred years. Inferath conquered all three realms and appointed Zakirir as his Demon King. When Princess Havilah rose against them, she was defeated — but with her last breath she delivered a prophecy: *"Await my return. In recent times."*
Thirty years later, an ordinary college student named Avery is drawn into this broken world through a magical book by her librarian Mrs. Helena. Posing as a palace maid, she catches the attention of Prince Harris — Zakirir's own son, who secretly despises everything his father represents. With Harris quietly helping her from the inside, Avery frees three of Havilah's former councillors from the palace dungeon, discovers she carries Havilah's power within her, and escapes the palace before Zakirir can stop her.
Guided north to Brightwater — Havilah's realm, which was hidden rather than destroyed — Avery finds Havilah's sword waiting for her and the realm's people emerging from thirty years of hiding. But Zakirir sends a skilled hunter named Soren to stop her from reaching the second realm. Soren finds her — and chooses her side instead.
With Havilah's sword, a growing power she is still learning to control, three loyal elders, a conflicted prince, and a reformed hunter beside her, Avery must restore all three realms, defeat Zakirir, and fulfill a prophecy thirty years in the making.
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