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The Seven Graves of the Immortal King

The Seven Graves of the Immortal King

Dickson

Paperback

FantasyMystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798256288082
Publisher: Sterling Whitaker Dickson
Published: Aug 12 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Asher Bennett is a veteran mercenary who believes in two things: the edge of his sword and the weight of gold. When the mysterious Lucian Ashford offers him a fortune to destroy the relics hidden within seven ancient tombs, Asher sees the mission as a final contract-one that could buy him freedom from a lifetime of war. He recruits Lillian Kingsley, an ambitious scholar, Marcus Holloway, a powerful demolitionist, and Owen Fletcher, a young scout, and together they begin a journey across a world where ancient forces refuse to remain buried.The seven tombs are scattered across deadly landscapes: a Sunken Marsh, a mountain library, the Frozen Peak, the Iron Fortress, and other forgotten sanctums. Each contains a fragment of the same ancient King, divided into different versions of his existence. Asher sees the soul fragments as targets and the tombs as obstacles. He refuses to believe in curses, prophecy, or magic, trusting only in logic, steel, explosives, and the promise of Lucian's gold.But the mission begins to consume the team. Owen disappears when the first soul fragment is destroyed, while the sky turns an unnatural purple and the land begins reacting to every shattered seal. A blind oracle warns Asher that they are not destroying a curse-they are releasing the imprisoned power of a Waking King. Yet Asher continues forward, convincing himself that professionalism requires him to finish what he started.With every tomb they open, Lucian grows younger, stronger, and less human. The truth eventually becomes unavoidable: the seven tombs were never meant to contain separate enemies. They were anchors holding different versions of an ancient god apart. By destroying them, Asher and his companions have unknowingly performed the ritual required to reunite the King.In the final sanctum, Lucian reveals his true identity as the Waking King. The fragments merge, the world is rewritten, and Asher finally understands that his greatest strength-his blind faith in logic and contracts-was exactly what made him useful. He was not the hero of the mission, but the midwife who cleared the path for a god's return.The King keeps his promise in the cruelest possible way. Asher receives his permanent retirement, transformed into stone and appointed as the First Sentinel, an eternal guardian of the King's silent kingdom. His desire for escape from war becomes an endless sentence of watching over the world he helped destroy.

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