The Faraway Paladin: The Lord of the Rust Mountains

Two years after departing the City of the Dead, seventeen-year-old Will has settled into life as a lord, building up Torch Port—a river harbor meant to be a beacon of light—and helping restore everyday work and laughter to the Beast Woods. But when unseasonable flowers erupt in full bloom, signs of something unnatural begin to surface in the forest.

Will and his companions venture deeper to uncover the cause, only to be met with a grim warning from the forest’s king: in the Iron Rust Mountains, the “Fire of Black Calamity” will ignite, threatening to spread until it consumes everything. The answer lies somewhere within a ruined dwarven city in the Tetsusabi mountain range, where a long-sleeping disaster may be waiting to awaken.