A prince sent into exile, without the means to fight back.
A young man trapped in an unfair world, without the status to bring about change.
Combined, they will have both means and status.
Armed with advanced knowledge from a strange world, will Prince Corco be able to cut through the injustice, regain his birthright and turn the country of his ancestors into a paradise of true peace, equality and prosperity?
“Okay, first step: Let's make some Brandy.”
...that’s a maybe then.
Author’s note: I love the idea of kingdom-building novels and think the genre has a lot to offer, but I don’t think many authors do them very well. Here is my attempt. The novel has a strong focus on politics and kingdom building, with occasional action and a bit of humor. Have fun.
- Chapter 1 Prologue
- Chapter 4 First Experimen
- Chapter 7 Marketing
- Chapter 10 Fake Seer, Fake Physician
- Chapter 13 First Major Haul
- Chapter 16 Prey
- Chapter 19 A Man of Few Words
- Chapter 22 Manufactured Morale
- Chapter 25 Greed and Motivation
- Chapter 28 The Best Laid Plans
- Chapter 31 The Big Fish
- Chapter 34 A Triumphant Return
- Chapter 37 Distribution of Wealth
- Chapter 40 Music
- Chapter 43 A Chat in the Garden
- Chapter 46 To Cancel Out the Double Negative
- Chapter 49 A Long Day of Work
- Chapter 52 A Great Hero
- Chapter 55 The Merchant Prince
- Chapter 58 Fire Seeds
- Chapter 61 The Ape Kings Banque
- Chapter 64 Conspiracy
- Chapter 67 Resist or Submi
- Chapter 70 One Down, One to Go
- Chapter 73 Rif
- Chapter 76 Truth and Decei
- Chapter 79 Nobless Assembly
- Chapter 82 Cortege
- Chapter 85 River King
- Chapter 88 Extended Family
- Chapter 91 Smiles All Around
- Chapter 94 Beacons
- Chapter 97 Free City
- Chapter 100 Two out of Three
- Chapter 103 Rumors
- Chapter 106 Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Chapter 109 Transi
- Chapter 112 Uninvited Gues
- Chapter 115 Three Kinds of Trouble
- Chapter 118 Two Sides
- Chapter 121 Power Struggle
- Chapter 124 Grand Finale
- Chapter 127 Old Friends End of Book 3
- Chapter 130 Precision
- Chapter 133 First Invention
- Chapter 136 Loyalty
- Chapter 139 Burden
- Chapter 142 Glory
- Chapter 145 Unfounded Worry
- Chapter 148 Pessimist and Optimis
- Chapter 151 Stubborn
- Chapter 154 Loyal or Stubborn
- Chapter 157 Weather
- Chapter 160 Antipyretics
- Chapter 163 Plots and Plans
- Chapter 166 A Sacrifice for the Future
- Chapter 169 Back Home
- Chapter 172 Landing Operation
- Chapter 175 New Toys
- Chapter 178 Accompanimen
- Chapter 181 Cold
- Chapter 184 Strategic Maneuvers
- Chapter 187 Course Correction
- Chapter 190 Standoff
- Chapter 193 Sinister Omens
- Chapter 196 Guerilla Tactics
- Chapter 199 Final Preparations
- Chapter 202 Real War
- Chapter 205 Failed Ambition
- Chapter 208 Trade Trouble
- Chapter 211 Always More Banquets
- Chapter 214 Projects and Goals
- Chapter 217 Modern Transportation
- Chapter 220 Lessons Between Lessons
- Chapter 223 Please Stay Behind After Class
- Chapter 226 Change in Fortune
- Chapter 229 Honorable Battle
- Chapter 232 Hidden Smile
- Chapter 235 New Weaponry
- Chapter 238 Worthless
- Chapter 241 New Business
- Chapter 244 Convincing the Holdovers
- Chapter 247 Catching Up
- Chapter 250 Secret Operations
- Chapter 253 Setting Things in Motion
- Chapter 256 Fire Safety
- Chapter 259
- Chapter 262
- Chapter 265
- Chapter 268
- Chapter 271
- Chapter 274
- Chapter 277
- Chapter 280
- Chapter 283
- Chapter 286
- Chapter 289
- Chapter 292
- Chapter 295
- Chapter 298
- Chapter 301
- Chapter 302.2: Decoys
- Chapter 305: End of the Battle, Start of the War
- Chapter 310: Conspiracy
- Chapter 313: A New Age
- Chapter 316: So Many Plans
- Chapter 321: Distant Threat
- Chapter 324: Securing the Landing
- Chapter 327: Secret Operations
- Chapter 330: War Against Nature
- Chapter 333: House Ogulno Breaks its Isolation
- Chapter 336: Bent and Upright
- Chapter 339: Modern Warfare
- Chapter 342: The Final Piece
- Chapter 345: Open Contempt
- Chapter 348: Interview With the Devil
- Chapter 351: The Final Talks
- Chapter 354: A Round of Drinks
- Chapter 357: Chamber Music
- Chapter 360: The Dangerous Life of a Treasure Hunter
- Chapter 363: Quiet Resistance
- Chapter 366: During the Festival (2)
- Chapter 369: Saniyas Longest Day (3)
- Chapter 372: Consequences
- Chapter 375: Regret
- Chapter 378: New Role
- Chapter 381: Surprise
- Chapter 384: Negotiations of Surrender
- Chapter 387: Cornered Rats
- Chapter 390: Uncaged Beast
- Chapter Capter 393 - Old and New
- Chapter 396: Invincible No More
- Chapter 399: Routine (2)
- Chapter 402: Family Reunion
- Chapter 405: Masters of Fate
- Chapter 408: Instinct
- Chapter 411: Returning the Favor
- Chapter 414: Cleaning Up the Rubble
- Chapter 417: Winners, Losers, DNF
- Chapter 420: Funerary Festival (2)
- Chapter 423: Budget Proposal and Short-Term Plans
- Chapter 426: Kyunyas Story
- Chapter 429: Fog of War
- Chapter 432: Auction
- Chapter 435: Culmination of Plans (3)
- Chapter 438: Conflict
- Chapter 441: Capital Interests
- Chapter 444: An Enemys Debt
- Chapter 447: Smooth Negotiations
- Chapter 450: A Lesson From the Scholars
- Chapter 453: The Last Piece
- Chapter 456: Idiot (2)
- Chapter 459: Old Investments
- Chapter 475: Return
- Chapter 461: Setting the Board
- Chapter 464: Fear and Doubt
- Chapter 467: Strength Through Weakness
- Chapter 471: Easy Rider (1)
- Chapter 474: Possibilities
- Chapter 479: Limits of the Research
- Chapter 482: Year-End Review (1)
- Chapter 485: Miscommunication
- Chapter 2 Dilemma
- Chapter 5 The Smell of Hope
- Chapter 8 Second Produc
- Chapter 11 Safety Ne
- Chapter 14 Inventions
- Chapter 17 Three Captains
- Chapter 20 Faith and Greed
- Chapter 23 Fallibility
- Chapter 26 Fake Pirates
- Chapter 29 What Really Matters
- Chapter 32 Payoff
- Chapter 35 Blue for the Funeral
- Chapter 38 Allies
- Chapter 41 That Magnificent Beard
- Chapter 44 Life Insurance
- Chapter 47 Into the Darkness
- Chapter 50 Making Plans
- Chapter 53 Streak of Ligh
- Chapter 56 Beyond the Clouds
- Chapter 59 Looking Back
- Chapter 62 How to Rule a Country
- Chapter 65 Collecting Pieces
- Chapter 68 Washed Away by the Rain
- Chapter 71 Uncovering Truths
- Chapter 74 The Ancestors Goals
- Chapter 77 Dark Omens
- Chapter 80 A Duel Between Kings
- Chapter 83 His Role End of Book 2
- Chapter 86 Saniya
- Chapter 89 Close Family
- Chapter 92 Adventurous Spiri
- Chapter 95 Gifts
- Chapter 98 Standardization
- Chapter 101 Battle in the Mountains
- Chapter 104 Triumvirate Meeting
- Chapter 107 Time Flies
- Chapter 110 Lord, Governor, King
- Chapter 113 Hidden in Plain Sigh
- Chapter 116 True Nature
- Chapter 119 Chances Missed, and Taken
- Chapter 122 Mortal Danger
- Chapter 125 Two Sides
- Chapter 128 Bandits in the Fores
- Chapter 131 Recruitmen
- Chapter 134 Cheat Codes
- Chapter 137 Inevitability
- Chapter 140 Weaklings
- Chapter 143 Purpose
- Chapter 146 Superstition
- Chapter 149 Change in Direction
- Chapter 152 Underwater
- Chapter 155 Vice
- Chapter 158 Reunions
- Chapter 161 Gif
- Chapter 164 Two Meetings
- Chapter 167 Conspiracy
- Chapter 170 Cleanup
- Chapter 173 Disruption
- Chapter 176 Starvation Tactics
- Chapter 179 Maybe
- Chapter 182 Demons and Mortals
- Chapter 185 Breaking Ou
- Chapter 188 Sowing Disconten
- Chapter 191 Charge
- Chapter 194 Breaking the Siege
- Chapter 197 Making the Rounds
- Chapter 200 Opening Gambi
- Chapter 203 Counter Offensive
- Chapter 206 Reunion
- Chapter 209 Trade Trouble Part 2
- Chapter 212 A New Era
- Chapter 215 A New World
- Chapter 218 Back to Basics
- Chapter 221 Overtime Work
- Chapter 224 Strengthening the Alliance
- Chapter 227 Servility
- Chapter 230 Beasts of War
- Chapter 233 Back Again
- Chapter 236 Shadows
- Chapter 239 Looking Around
- Chapter 242 Government Interference
- Chapter 245 High Politics
- Chapter 248 Cold War
- Chapter 251 Meeting the Boss
- Chapter 254 Infiltration
- Chapter 257 Breaking the Ne
- Chapter 260
- Chapter 263
- Chapter 266
- Chapter 269
- Chapter 272
- Chapter 275
- Chapter 278
- Chapter 281: End Times [End of Book 5]
- Chapter 284
- Chapter 287
- Chapter 290
- Chapter 293
- Chapter 296
- Chapter 299
- Chapter 302
- Chapter 303: Fireball
- Chapter 306: War Reaches the Island
- Chapter 311: The Power of Rumors
- Chapter 314: Medical Research
- Chapter 317: 319 - Parting Gift; Journey Through Sachay; Hidden Courtyard
- Chapter 322: Buying Support
- Chapter 325: A Search for Meaning
- Chapter 328: Finding Meaning
- Chapter 331: Two Sides of Progress
- Chapter 334: Unhappy Clergy
- Chapter 337: Felian Northdale, Really Trying to Keep it Together
- Chapter 340: Focus
- Chapter 343: Machines
- Chapter 346: Fires Everywhere
- Chapter 349: The End of His Patience
- Chapter 352: Chaos in the City
- Chapter 355: Two Masks
- Chapter 358: Support
- Chapter 361: Switching Sides
- Chapter 364: Silent Ultimatum
- Chapter 367: Saniyas Longest Day (1)
- Chapter 370: Last Chance to Repent
- Chapter 373: The Morning After
- Chapter 376: Full Control
- Chapter 379: Forced Hands
- Chapter 382: All-around Confidence
- Chapter 385: Peace Terms
- Chapter 388: Warcrimes
- Chapter 391: Obstacle
- Chapter 394: Convictions
- Chapter 397: Keeping it Together
- Chapter 400: Broken Routine
- Chapter 403: Approach
- Chapter 406: Termites
- Chapter 409: An End to the War
- Chapter 412: Humans Against Monster
- Chapter 415: What Remains of Our Past
- Chapter 418: Present and Future (End of Book 6)
- Chapter 421: Year-End Summary and Long-Term Plans
- Chapter 424: Dreams
- Chapter 427: Worker Cooperatives
- Chapter 430: Informant
- Chapter 433: Culmination of Plans (1)
- Chapter 436: Culmination of Plans (4)
- Chapter 439: Powering Through
- Chapter 442: A Prisoners Chance
- Chapter 445: Escape Plans
- Chapter 448: Twists and Turns
- Chapter 451: Walled Desert
- Chapter 454: Villains
- Chapter 457: An Offer He Cant Refuse
- Chapter 460: Stale
- Chapter 478: Research Results (3)
- Chapter 462: Mother's Perspective
- Chapter 465: Final Outcome
- Chapter 468: Question, Answer
- Chapter 472: Easy Rider (2)
- Chapter 476: Research Results (1)
- Chapter 480: Uses for the Research
- Chapter 483: Year-End Review (2)
- Chapter 486: Questioning
- Chapter 3 Alchemist Bombasticus
- Chapter 6 Respective Plans
- Chapter 9 Cultivation
- Chapter 12 Business Partners
- Chapter 15 Matters of Faith
- Chapter 18 New Era
- Chapter 21 Modern Siege Tactics
- Chapter 24 Peace Offers
- Chapter 27 Consequences
- Chapter 30 On the Prowl
- Chapter 33 Talent, Success, Truth End of Book 1
- Chapter 36 Unequal Negotiations
- Chapter 39 Electoral Campaign
- Chapter 42 Little Bro, Lets Drink!
- Chapter 45 Accomplice
- Chapter 48 A Chat Between Father and Son
- Chapter 51 Claim to the Throne
- Chapter 54 A Moment of Peace
- Chapter 57 Stargazing Brawl
- Chapter 60 Witch Doctors Curse
- Chapter 63 Going Home
- Chapter 66 The Final Vote
- Chapter 69 Ancestral Assembly
- Chapter 72 Miracle
- Chapter 75 A Reward for Good Deeds
- Chapter 78 Plans for the Future
- Chapter 81 A Duel Between Kings Part 2
- Chapter 84 Middle of Nowhere
- Chapter 87 The Captains Homecoming
- Chapter 90 The Lord of Saniya
- Chapter 93 Plans Between Friends
- Chapter 96 Ronnie and Bombasticus
- Chapter 99 Businessman and Lady
- Chapter 102 Hope Dies Las
- Chapter 105 Checkup
- Chapter 108 Financial Troubles
- Chapter 111 Aperitif
- Chapter 114 Blemishes
- Chapter 117 How to Salvage a Disaster
- Chapter 120 Surrounded
- Chapter 123 Light and Dark
- Chapter 126 Opponents
- Chapter 129 Old and New
- Chapter 132 Secret Alliance
- Chapter 135 Preparations
- Chapter 138 Pettiness
- Chapter 141 Opening a Path
- Chapter 144 Supply and Demand
- Chapter 147 Splitting Up
- Chapter 150 Spread Thin
- Chapter 153 Family Ties
- Chapter 156 Travelers
- Chapter 159 Turning Winds
- Chapter 162 Plans to be Foiled
- Chapter 165 Plans and Ploys
- Chapter 168 The Fog Clears
- Chapter 171 Exiles
- Chapter 174 Opportunists, Cowards
- Chapter 177 Chance at Glory
- Chapter 180 Real Enemy
- Chapter 183 Surprise Visitor
- Chapter 186 Secret Deal
- Chapter 189 Skirmish
- Chapter 192 Collapse
- Chapter 195 Change of Hear
- Chapter 198 Revenge
- Chapter 201 No More Probes
- Chapter 204 Confrontation
- Chapter 207 Trade Trouble End of Book 5
- Chapter 210 Armistice
- Chapter 213 Office Politics
- Chapter 216 Trouble in Paradise
- Chapter 219 A Route to the Stars
- Chapter 222 Freedom and Burden
- Chapter 225 In Search of a Future
- Chapter 228 Real Power
- Chapter 231 Two Types of Battle
- Chapter 234 Union
- 237 New Chapters Coming Today and tomorrow, and...
- Chapter 240 Paper, Also Worthless
- Chapter 243 Fight For Power
- Chapter 246 Still Searching
- Chapter 249 No Place Like Home
- Chapter 252 Family Vacation
- Chapter 255 Opponents Far Apar
- Chapter 258
- Chapter 261
- Chapter 264
- Chapter 267
- Chapter 270
- Chapter 273
- Chapter 276
- Chapter 279
- Chapter 282: [Start of Book 6 - The Verduic Wars]
- Chapter 285
- Chapter 288
- Chapter 291
- Chapter 294
- Chapter 297
- Chapter 300
- Chapter 302.1: Everyone Has a Plan
- Chapter 304: Melee
- Chapter 307: 309 - Takeover; Behind the Scenes
- Chapter 312: Taking Control
- Chapter 315: Medical Research
- Chapter 320: East Point
- Chapter 323: Old Force Opposition
- Chapter 326: Stuck in the Mud
- Chapter 329: Felian Northdale, Victim of Workplace Abuse
- Chapter 332: Tricks of the Commoners
- Chapter 335: Modern Education
- Chapter 338: Guerilla Warfare
- Chapter 341: His Entire World
- Chapter 344: Reigning in the Opposition
- Chapter 347: Unexpected Enemies
- Chapter 350: Welcoming the Visitors
- Chapter 353: Emergency Meeting
- Chapter 356: War for the Citys Soul
- Chapter 359: Treasure Hunt
- Chapter 362: Gathering Allies
- Chapter 365: During the Festival (1)
- Chapter 368: Saniyas Longest Day (2)
- Chapter 371: Miracle
- Chapter 374: Breaking the Isolation
- Chapter 377: Moral Highground
- Chapter 380: Hubris
- Chapter 383: Cornered
- Chapter 386: Worry
- Chapter 389: Making a Fist
- Chapter 392: Obsession
- Chapter 395: Pride and Fall
- Chapter 398: Routine
- Chapter 401: Diplomatic Meeting
- Chapter 404: Dirt and Blood
- Chapter 407: Order Into Chaos
- Chapter 410: Final Counterattack
- Chapter 413: Cotton
- Chapter 416: Survivors
- Chapter 419: Funerary Festival (1 - Start of Book 7)
- Chapter 422: Fiscal Summary and Medium-Term Plans
- Chapter 425: Partner in Crime
- Chapter 428: The Other Side
- Chapter 431: Fool
- Chapter 434: Culmination of Plans (2)
- Chapter 437: A Kings Evening
- Chapter 440: Capital Investment
- Chapter 443: An Elders Privilege
- Chapter 446: Concerns
- Chapter 449: Bitter Reunion
- Chapter 452: Back to Work
- Chapter 455: Idiot (1)
- Chapter 458: Evening Sky
- Chapter 470: Business Proposal (Counter Example)
- Chapter 487 - Sami Quits
- Chapter 463: Bloody Night
- Chapter 466: Springing the Trap
- Chapter 469: Business Proposal
- Chapter 473: Pleasure Cruise
- Chapter 477: Research Results (2)
- Chapter 481: New Armies
- Chapter 484: Year-End Review (Last Part)