Welcome to the beginning of the Reforged King.
Book I: The Kingdom of Virelia
🔥 Prologue:
In the year 2025, a brilliant but reclusive strategist, war historian, and engineer—Karan—dies in a strange car accident. But death is not the end.
He awakens in agony, suffocating in velvet sheets, a crown weighing down on his skull, the air thick with incense.
When he opens his eyes… he is King Edric IV of Virelia—a monarch in a collapsing 1500s kingdom.
But something is wrong. The body that should be withering is… changing.
"Your Majesty, the wrinkles—they fade," his healer whispers.
"His strength… it returns," murmurs a frightened knight.
Day by day, the decrepit, rotting body of the king is transforming—rejuvenating. The courtiers say it's a miracle.
But the truth?A modern mind now sits on the ancient throne.
🧠 Modern Knowledge in a Medieval World
King Karan-Edric now possesses:
Strategic knowledge of logistics, economy, modern warfare, and politics.
Deep understanding of human behavior, manipulation, propaganda.
Familiarity with technology, which he now tries to replicate in ancient form: steam power, gunpowder efficiency, even mechanical communications.
Memory of revolutions, how empires rise, and most importantly… how they fall.
🐍 The Kingdom's Reality:
Corrupt nobles circle like vultures, believing the king is weak.
Generals ignore orders unless bribed.
Peasants are planning open revolt.
The treasury is bleeding silver.
Foreign enemies are preparing to invade.
But none of them know the truth:
"The old king is dead. A new one has taken his place. I will not rule like them… I will forge an empire from the ashes of a corpse."
⚔️ First Moves of the Reforged King:
Fake Weakness:
He pretends to still be frail. Keeps coughing in court. Lets the nobles relax.
Secretly meets with one loyal old general to begin creating a new elite force—trained using modern tactics.
The Iron Flame:
He tracks down the secret rebel group and instead of killing them, offers them power—under his command.
They become his secret police, assassins, and spies—loyal to him alone.
Start of Reform:
New tax system (corrupt collectors vanish mysteriously).
Fake coin system is abolished, replaced by weight-verified currency.
A new school is opened in the capital—secretly teaching physics, engineering, critical thinking under disguise of religious study.
Gunpowder Revolution:
Using "alchemical experiments," he enhances black powder.
Begins manufacturing primitive rifles, smokeless powder, and siege cannons hidden from nobles.
The Body Rebirth:
His hair regains its color.
His posture straightens.
By month three… he looks 35 years old.
He claims it is a "blessing of the Burnt Moon."
🕵️♂️ But Danger Brews...
A noble family suspects the king is possessed or not the same man.
🎤 Quote from the Reforged King:
"You thought I was weak. You thought the crown weighed too heavy.But I have worn the burden of time itself.You are playing games of power... I am writing the rules."