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Way of the Knights

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The Final Haven Kingdom. The last known habitable place for humans. Protected by it's faithful Knights, it's walls were destroyed and rebuilt over and over again, signifying it's strength and unwillingness to bow down before the forces of evil. Raven, a young man who's soul returned back in time with his memories intact, what are the changes that he will bring to prevent the kingdom's destruction? Join his adventures along with his family, friends and his lover to find out what is his own Way of being a Knight. *** Disclaimers: 1.) One chapter everyday, might change depending on the ratings and/or personal reasons. We'll see. 2.) English isn't my native language, there's bound to be some errors here and there. You have been warned. Enjoy.

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Chapter 1How?

Chapter 1: How?

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On a small corner of the enormous galaxy, a world existed.

It was a vast land, filled with endless mountains, great bodies of water, wondrous vistas and the likes. It truly is a magnificent piece of world even though it was filled with rich history and great dangers.

It is called, The Grand Ancestral Plane.

On the central part of the Grand Ancestral Plane, a lone kingdom stood strong for millenniums.

It is called, The Final Haven Kingdom.

Located amidst the vast expanse of forest filled streams, hills, poisonous swamps, lairs of demonic beasts and etc. The empire stood tall and remained.

This place might be the last haven for humans, thus it's name.

The Kingdom, though surrounded by enormous walls that protected it's citizens, are still under the constant threat of destruction from beast hordes.

Even so, humans can't abandon this place. It's citizens can't abandon this place. Since this is the last remaining place for humans to live in.

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The Kingdom is divided to three main parts.

The Outer Ring where most of the regular citizens lived. This place is undoubtedly the most populated location in the Kingdom. Most of the families lived here in a very humble manner. Some relied on farming, other through clothing, smithing, cooking, trading, or even entertaining. They might lack wealth but they are filled with dreams that eventually, there will be a day when they too could live as comfortably as the nobles.

The Inner Ring, where most of the Nobles gathered. This is where the important figures of the kingdom resided or those who have a very impressive background. These nobles had a fair share of wealth and able to live as comfortably as they could, but they also knew that being born as a Noble has it's responsibilities

Last but not the least. The Royal Palace. Where the Royal Family resided. It is a tradition of their ancestors and their idea to build this place. It serves as a the beacon of hope, pride and protection for it's citizens, telling them that their King is there to shoulder the heavens for their safety.

The reason for their belief, is because their beloved King is a very strong Knight.

Knights are those people who had superhuman strength. They have strengths that could rival that of a god. They were the ones who protected the safety of the kingdom. It could even be said that being a Knight is the most honorable profession in the entire kingdom. And this is why almost everyone wanted to become a Knight.

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On the southern part of the Outer Ring of the kingdom. There is a humble abode below a hill.

This is a rather discreet location for someone to live, but it is peaceful in here. The abode was made out of bricks, traces of smoke could be seen on it's chimney. The house is divided into separate doors, one for the living room, one for the kitchen, one leads towards the yard at the back, one leads to the masters bedroom and one lead towards the children's room, a total of five doors.

Inside the children's room, a youngster wore an agonized expression. He was at least thirteen or fourteen years old. He had a tanned skin, and a very lean body, it could even be said that he's skinny. His straight brows were furrowed and his jaw were clenched, his tiny hands were gripping the sheets, showing that he was suffering from something.

"Nnn…"

A soft but pained sound escaped his thin lips. His head felt like it was being pounded with many bricks. The throbbing sensation was coursing through his body, it was too painful that he wanted to lose consciousness but the pain was not letting him do so. It was incredibly agonizing for a small child to experience a pain like this.

If anyone was here, they would be totally confused as to what is going on with the boy. From the looks of it, he might be experiencing some nightmares, but how could a normal nightmare hurt like this? Another weird thing is that, a faint light was covering the boy's head.

It was very hard to recognize but if one paid attention closely, the light formed a shape.

A Crown-like shape.

However this phenomena disappeared quickly along with the agonized expression of the child. After a couple of peaceful breaths, the child opened his eyes only to witness an unfamiliar ceiling. His vision adjusted for a second before he felt a throb on his head. Raising his shaking hands on his head, he managed to utter his first word after waking up…

"Fuck…"

His raspy yet pitched voice echoed inside the room. The child massaged his temples for a while and this proved to be effective since the residual pain from the earlier torture was receding. He managed to open his eyes once more and roam his vision around.

"Where…is this?"

He spoke with a great effort, his brows were once again furrowed as he tried to recall the events before his passed out. He closed his eyes and concentrated, and when he managed to trace down the last memory he had, his body shivered and his eyes abruptly flew wide open.

"How!? How is this possible!?" His voice almost sounded hysterical at this point.

"I died! I knew I did! I ignited my entire cultivation base in hopes of burying the Abyssal Emperor with me so I shouldn't be alive! What's going on?"

His voice carried a surprised reaction. It was no surprise that he acted this way, anyone would react this way if they experienced the same thing as he did.

The child concentrated once more and tried his best to recall everything. His eyes opened and once again roamed inside the room he was in. Suddenly, a very old memory of his started playing in his head. There were several pictures in that memory that seemed to overlap with the image that he was seeing inside this room right now.

Unknowingly, tears started falling in his immature face. These tears weren't formed because of sadness and instead, it was because of profound sense of joy, happiness and excitement. His heart threatened to leap out of his heart because of it's fierce beating. Every fiber in his body was screaming with joy. His mouth opened and closed multiple times but failed to utter any sound, it was after a long period of silence that he manage to say something.

"I'm back…" he whispered breathlessly.

"Holy shit, I really am back…" his words sounded like he was trying to convince himself about a very obvious thing.

"Hahaha! Fuck! I, Vendrick Valorheart, am back! Shit! Hahahaha!" His hysterical laugh echoed inside the room, seemingly announcing to whole world the news of his return. He quickly calmed down and tried to rationalize his thoughts.

"I never thought that this is possible. After the demise of the kingdom, everyone died except me. After crawling through the remains, I roamed the Grand Ancestral Plane in search of a way to raise my strength in order to avenge my family and friends. I eventually succeeded and ascended to the Divine Realm where I seek more power to revive them. But the Eternal Division Wall was breached, and the Divine Realm was attacked by the Abbysals."

"Many humans died under their claws, because of desperation, I raised my strength without holding back. I eventually had the strength face the Abyssal Emperor but he was too strong, during the last act of madness, I forcefully broke through the same stage as he did and ignited myself in order to take him down with me. I never expected that it will lead me to this scenario…where I'm back to start over."

It was difficult to express just how awesome he felt this time. There's a lot of things that's going on in his mind. All the memories he made, all of the adventures he took, all of the dangers he faced, the enemies he slew and so much more, add the fact that he will be able to once more and this time, better. Thinking about it just sends his heart into a frenzy.

"Partner…where are you?"

Vendrick or 'Raven' as his nickname, softly called out with his eyes closed.

He had not forgotten the one thing that accompanied him all throughout his journey. He searched and searched, his vision seemingly penetrated the deepest and most secretive part of his body.

His very own soul.

There he saw, a dimmed light flickering to existence. It was very faint but it signifies that it's there. Seeing this image brought immense joy in his heart. His eyes might be closed but his gaze softened as he silently watched over it. It was gaze, like that of a doting brother.

As a response to his gaze, the silhouette deep in his soul shook and flickered multiple times. It seems to be sentient and expressing gratefulness and joy upon noticing his gaze.

"Thankfully you're still with me…Divine Crown."

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Parag0n1
Parag0n1Lv4

This review is based on what the author wrote. The criticism would be purely constructive and does not intend to discourage anyone from reading the novel. Worldbuilding- 3/5 The shallowness of the description of the world is so apparent. I get it that they are living in a confined space right now, but it would be better if you try to be wordy on this case since a lot chapter will happen on this 'Place' on the upcoming episodes. There are a lot of places that are mentioned in the earlier chapters, as well. It will be technically competent if you mention it one at a time. In this case, your novel is a reincarnation genre where it would go wrong unless you can describe those places in a bit descriptive way in the following chapter. Character- The people around the lead exists just for the convenience of the story - without deepness - you can make your characters carry some emotions, not only acting like a predictable robot. Please make them a real human being. Sentence structure- 2/5 A lot of paragraphs are so badly transitioned. It is making your lead looks like a multi-tasker. I rarely encounter grammatical errors and typos, as well. Which is good. Some punctuations are necessary for the readers to understand what is going on with the situations, and we can understand them clearly. Overall- 2/5 I love this kind of novel; I guess it all matters how the authors writes it. For me, it would be a good read if you don't have stories to enjoy anymore. What can I say is, this story has a lot of potentials. Just read a lot of popular books out there and particularly learn how they transition every paragraph. I wish you all the best.

YesEvil
YesEvilLv15

Writing Quality: There are a lot of mistakes in any given chapter which greatly hinders the flow of reading. The most blatant mistakes are missing words or incorrect words such as "tales" instead of 'tails' or "of" instead of 'if'. Stability of Updates: I've powered through 50 chapters so I am not up to the update waiting part yet, don't think I will get there though. Checking the history shows it started off daily but has switched to a weekly mass update. Mostly reliable so far. Story Dev: Nothing really stands out, a bit forceful in moving the story along. Still in a stage where it feels like the story is in it's infancy which is fair for only having read 50 chapters. Character Design: Cliche? But at the same time it only feels like we have gotten to know two characters, the MC and romantic interest. A lot of the characters are just there and they don't feel "alive". Just being there for the sake of needing to be there. I will admit I was happy that the MC showed glimpses of quality from his youth, however it just makes it seem like he never changed even with the reincarnation. World Background: Nothing special, but it is early days. A lot to learn about the author's world in the future releases. I am a fan of the 'last bastion' start. Overall I don't really find anything special about this title. My best way to explain how I feel is that I would not use SS or FP to read this novel. My advice to the author would be to improve their writing via properly editing their work and to flesh out characters so the readers will actually care about what happens with them.

Sangabriel
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TheTrueGilgamesh
TheTrueGilgameshLv6
Juiceisagoat
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TheManBrownie
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This story had a decent amount of potential but honestly falls short on a lot of aspects and really only disappoints me in the end. Starting off I was fine with the TDG similarities, if I dropped a novel just because the beginning was similar I wouldn't read half of the novels that I do. Saying that I think the author did a decent job of branching off and implementing his own ideas. That being said the Author fails miserably when it comes to cultivation realms. He changed the the stages 3 times in the time before ascension, and at this point i still cant tell you what the stages are. Upon ascending he introduces new characters at some realm that we have no idea how that ranks compared to the mc or even what mc next realm even is. A glossary would be amazing, but I assume that's too much of an ask. Writing quality:3/5 Not the best but definitely readable, few errors here and there but nothing too bad to make me want to quit Story development:2.5/5 As I said before it had decent potential but fell short on many aspects. The MC claims he spent thousands of years in his past life to try and bring his family back, but when he reincarnates he jumps at the first chance he gets to ascend after barely spending a few years with them (not counting the time he left to train). Then turning into the classic "My only goal is to get stronger" line and splitting up from his friend group and wife when he ascends. Why even bother making the squad of friends if mc never makes an effort to do things with them? It is always him swooping in last minute saving the day by himself. They really don't serve any purpose in the story besides silly banter in between arcs. Don't get me wrong I'm all for the group but it seems the author just abandoned the mcs original goal to strengthen his friends so they can fight together. Finally really tired of the whole Marriage then separate and forget about them for who knows how many years trope. Character design:4/5 I like all the characters introduced and think that they had potential to make an interesting story. Unfortunately like a previously said they are abandoned along with many other characters in the story. Some of the characters pretty much abandoned with barely any development IE his sisters, the fairies, the monkeys, his mount venus, and pretty much most of the characters from the kingdom. World backround:2/5 His original world is so poorly developed that its really hard to even call it a world. The author went the cheap route of just a single kingdom and everything else is just wilderness. He claimed all these deities and gods came from this world but that just seems impossible. He said there were dwarfs, elves, naga, and other races but never mentioned where they lived or if they even existed anymore. If they once existed why not mention old ruins or old civiliztions? Nope nothing just the bare minimum boring "world" All in all this story had the means of saving itself when he left for the divine realm but unfortunately didn't deliver and went the route of severing all development prior and just starting anew with new characters and boring sect stuff.

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