Abstract

What if Ancient American civilizations developed into an advanced technological stage before European ones? What if these advanced civilizations then sailed across the ocean and discovered new lands ruled by monarchs and protected by knights? And what if they invaded these new-found lands to extract crucial resources for their survival, slaughtering anyone who stood in their way, including every single knight except one?

Set in a fictional continent based on medieval Europe, fifteen years after the invasion of a modern Ancient-American-like nation, this novel follows Angmar, a seventeen-year-old hunter who’s obsessed with tales about knights and their adventures to slay monsters and save those in need—stories within the story based on classic medieval-fantasy epics such as Beowulf, Arthurian legends, and Tolkien’s novels. His father having died during the invasion, Angmar was adopted by Henry, an old hunter and war hero who takes care of the town’s orphans. Once Angmar learns that the outlaw known as the gun-breaker, who has the highest bounty ever recorded and is rumoured to be the last knight, was sighted near his town, he becomes determined to go after the terrible bounty.