The Empire’s Bladesmen: Forbidden Relics by Clay Vagrant

Captain Shao Lian, a battle-hardened veteran of the Ming Dynasty’s imperial army, had become a respected officer in the emperor’s elite bodyguards.This notorious and politically-powerful secret service organization functioned as the emperor’s premiere intelligence agency and extension of his iron fist.

After Shao Lian was assigned to eliminate a ruthless crime lord after he had seized power over several frontier towns, he discovers that the Blood Foot Syndicate had awakened a powerful and terrifying adversary from a bygone era. Shao Lian and the soldiers in his command suddenly find themselves waging a harrowing war of survival against allied criminal gangs and an ancient being who commands hordes of monstrous man-eaters.

With the help of a Venetian scholar named Lilianna, they uncover a vast conspiracy that set ancient mechanisms into motion that threaten the 15th century world.

Category: Fantasy – Historical