The World of Ardamak Continent: Dragon’s Eye by Haitham Alkaabi
In the world of Ardamak, a thousand years after the dragons vanished, an ancient sorcerer saves a human kingdom from a monster army using devastating meteor magic—but at a price. He demands the right to work without restriction and to enter the forbidden continent to the west. Years later, the sorcerer adopts an orphan boy and trains him as an apprentice, while secretly beginning a quest to gather the blood of rare monsters.
With the help of a seasoned adventuring team—Lanster, Dino, Mira, Kiro, Grenad, and later the young mages Luna and Rowan—the sorcerer hunts down a crimson bear, a cyclops, a chimera, a two-headed swamp serpent, a desert dragon-lizard, and even a pureblood vampire named Victor. Each creature’s blood is collected under the guise of researching cures for incurable diseases, but the sorcerer’s true goal is far more dangerous.
In the forbidden continent, deep within an amber library under a mountain, the sorcerer discovers two enormous crystals. One holds a stone coffin, and the other imprisons a man with dragon eyes—Zirax, of the ancient Dragonfolk race. Using a book from his grandfather’s cellar and the monster blood, the sorcerer frees Zirax, who reveals the truth: the coffin contains an unnamed king from a vanished Dragonfolk kingdom. Long ago, a devastating plague struck, and the king was forced to burn his own kingdom with his black dragon, Kramos, to contain it. The priests then sealed the king in the crystal, erasing his memory in a ritual called “The Beginning of a New Life,” while Zirax remained as a living key.
The sorcerer eventually awakens the king, who emerges with human eyes and no memory. He is named Ordas by Luna and raised in the sorcerer’s castle, learning to speak, read, and fight. He grows into a man of unnatural strength and deep attachment to his new family—the adventuring team. Ordas later ventures south, marries a woman named Bella, and has a daughter, Sera. But Sera’s eyes betray her dragon heritage, and a rumor spreads to the capital, where the new young king, the Church of Light, and the ambitious Youth Council see it as a threat.
Fearing a rival claim to the throne, the Church and the Council secretly send a squad to burn the village and kill the family. Bella and Sera perish in the fire. Ordas, buried under rubble, awakens to the truth of his past: he is King Ortorius of the Dragonfolk. With his memories restored and his dragon eyes blazing, he retrieves his dark sword “The Destroyer” and sets out for the forbidden continent to awaken Kramos.
Kramos rises—a colossal black-and-crimson dragon—and Ortorius rides him back to the kingdom, unleashing fiery “purification” upon the city. The Church, the palace, and entire districts are consumed by dragonfire. The ruling king is dragged to the sky and thrown to his death. The sorcerer, returning to aid the kingdom, uses meteor magic to cripple Kramos’s wing, bringing the beast to the ground.
A final, desperate battle erupts. Grenad, the dwarf smith, has forged a massive spear-launcher with spears made of a mysterious dragon-killing metal from the Black Mountain. With the help of the hunter German—long thought dead—the team fires the spears into Kramos, wounding him mortally. Ortorius, standing before his dying dragon, refuses to surrender. As soldiers close in, he tells Kramos to release his fire one last time. The dragon’s breath engulfs the king, and Ortorius burns to ash, still gripping his sword.
The kingdom lies in ruins. The sorcerer, the guild, and the survivors begin to rebuild from the ashes. The Church and Council are broken. Lanster forms a temporary council to distribute food and water, and vows that justice will follow. In the quiet aftermath, the sorcerer looks south and whispers a plea for forgiveness—to Ortorius, to Bella, to Sera—knowing that their tragedy was set in motion by his own quest for secrets.
The story closes on a kingdom scarred by fire, its people learning that dragons may die, but the hunger for power and the idea of “purification” never truly end.
