Starfrost War Song

In the year 721 of the Xinglan calendar, blizzards on the Frostsong Plains buried countless travelers, but could not bury the brilliance of a young man.

The orphan Lu Li guards a border village alone with nothing but a hunting knife. Shrewd and calculating, he conceals a keen edge in swordsmanship. Bai Ze, who trained in the snowy mountains, descends with a knight's oath, steadfast and sincere in his adherence to chivalry. The fallen noble Helian Ge bears a broken imperial seal and flees for his life, his frost-cold blade concealing a blood feud. The three swear brotherhood in a tavern on the snowfields, using the broken seal as their emblem to found the Starfrost Mercenary Corps.

Starting as a tiny F-rank squad driving wolves from the snowfields, they go on to seize treasures from an underground altar and face the trials of the Radiance Tower. Lu Li astounds all with his mastery of both magic and martial arts, the Radiant Dragon Snowfeather hatches and chooses him as its master, and the forest elf Wuge pledges herself to him with a sacred oath. As relics of the old king emerge, the shadow war between the empire and the Church spreads. After a night of bloody raids and making a name for themselves in the arena, the young men are drawn step by step into a vast current that will reshape the world.

The armies of the Wild Gobi sweep across the southern shores, and war engulfs all five realms of the continent. Yet the countless armies of mankind and the rise and fall of empires are no more than pieces on the gods' celestial chessboard. When the name Ashen Flame rings from the tower's summit and dragon banners race across snowfields and seas, the three young men of the northern frontier will finally uncover the truth behind the fall of the gods and write a war epic of their own, as mercenaries.