

On the very day Jake Stone, a coal miner, is caught in a tragic mining accident, his wife, Hannah Zahn, is out celebrating their daughter’s birthday—with another man, Fred Parker. The cruelest blow comes when Jake learns of his daughter’s birthday wish: that he would disappear forever.

An evil scheme brought tragedy upon all eighteen members of the Hoffman family ten years ago. Noah Hoffman had fallen off a cliff then, before being rescued by a grandmaster who taught him all that he knew. He yields the courage to enter the North army, starting from the lowest of ranks and eventually rising up to become a legendaryconqueror of the battlefield named the Holy Joy King! Ten years later, he returns to the city under a new alias Liam Holland, out for payback in w