The Second Ascent by Andrian Vale
The finest swordsman in the world dies—and discovers mastery was only the beginning.
At sixty-one, Kaeda Renn understands the highest use of the sword just as a spear ends his life. But death opens like a door. Reborn into a world threaded with a warning addressed to him by name, he must learn what lies beyond a lifetime of perfect technique.
At sixty-one, Kaeda Renn finally understands the highest use of the sword—moments before a spear ends his life. Death does not close around him. It opens. Kaeda awakens young again in an unfamiliar empire, carrying a lifetime of disciplined instinct inside a body that has never held a blade and a warning from the ash addressed to him by name.
Youth gives Kaeda time, not innocence. His impossible skill attracts the attention of a martial court that measures every prodigy for ownership, while the altered sword in his hand suggests that the perfection he pursued in his first life was only a threshold. The Second Ascent combines patient progression, elegant combat, court tension, and a mystery spanning two lifetimes.
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