King of the Deep Roads

In the depths beneath a ruthless city, where monsters lurk and the forgotten are left to die, a boy named Alec refuses to be nothing.

After fleeing into the sewers to escape death, Alec awakens a strange power-one that lets him shape stone and bend force itself. What begins as a fight for survival quickly becomes something more. He builds. He adapts. He claims the darkness as his own.

When he saves a dying kobold, then a broken girl named Lysa, Alec's world begins to change. Together, they gather the lost-kobolds, orphans, outcasts-and forge them into something stronger.

But the deeper they go, the more dangerous the world becomes.

A monstrous Beholder rises in the depths, controlling the horrors below. The surface begins to take notice. And Alec must decide what kind of ruler he will become.

To protect his people, he won't just survive.

He'll conquer.

From hunted child to crowned king, this is the story of how one boy builds a kingdom in the dark-and dares the world above and below to challenge him.