The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of Rust Mountains

Two years have passed since Will departed the City of the Dead, and he has now reached the age of seventeen. Embracing his responsibilities as a lord, he has transformed Torch Port into a thriving river port known as a beacon of light. Under his guidance, the once-desolate Beast Woods has gradually come alive again, with the local populace returning to their daily activities and filling the region with renewed hope and smiles. However, this fragile peace is disrupted when flowers begin blooming wildly out of season, revealing a strange and unsettling abnormality deep within the forest. Determined to uncover the cause, Will and his companions venture into the untamed wilderness. There, they encounter the king of the forest, who delivers a dire and ominous prophecy: in the Iron Rust Mountains, a catastrophic event known as the Fire of Black Calamity is destined to awaken. This apocalyptic blaze threatens to spread uncontrollably and consume everything across the land. Now, Will must confront the terrifying mystery slumbering within the ruined dwarven city hidden in those desolate mountains. As the shadow of total destruction looms over the world he has worked so hard to rebuild, he faces a harrowing journey to prevent an ancient calamity from turning everything to ash.