Mage Steel, Book One (A Sci-Fi Western Cultivation Series): Knight Fall

A thousand years ago, Earth fell. Rifts split the sky, pouring in eldritch horrors and corrupting energy. Humanity adapted, awakened, fought… and still lost. Earth was abandoned. Our species scattered to the stars. What remains of its warrior legacy are the Knights, humans in Rift-forged power armor with ancient combat disciplines. They fight for hire: clearing Rifts, crushing uprisings, toppling regimes. To the galaxy, mercenaries. To their enemies, myth made metal. Cadet Kon was training to join them until his ship was shot down. He crashes on a Rift-infected world crawling with pirates, bandits, and the bones of a dead civilization. Cut off from command. Stranded with a crippled Knight. Hunted by monsters that should not exist. Survival is not the goal. It is the first test. Kon must carve a path across a planet gone mad, find his scattered comrades, and unearth secrets buried under ancient stone and alien fire. Each fight drags him deeper into the unknown, and toward a power that could burn him alive or forge him into something more. For fans of sci-fi and brutal cultivation arcs, Mage Steel delivers high-stakes action, cosmic mystery, and a hero who refuses to die quietly. View Less