Book illustrations of a young samurai warrior and her protoge as they travel round the country preparing to fight the threats that loom around their feet.
Characters
Main Character : Xia
A young Samurai warrior, known to be the best in the land. She is highly skilled at combining magic with sword fighting to create the most deadly strikes during combat.
Character : Joji
Protégé to Xia, he is a bulky mysterious figure with a soft heart and a simple mind. He hopes to learn as much as he can from Xia during their adventures and one day surpass her.
City of Huan Lai
Story starts with Xia receiving grave news from a friend that the city of Huan Lai is being terrorised by a ‘being’ that appears every night with an army. Nobody knows what it wants and whoever has seen it has gone missing. The two protagonists travel to the city to figure out whats going on.
Emperor Genjo
One night the two protagonists meet the being, who happens to be 60 ft tall with glowing eyes. It comes to be revealed that his army is in fact the missing people…
The ‘being’ enslaves one who enslaves more for him, it was like an infection.
A small confrontation occurs at the end of which the being and his army retreats with another victim.
Several nights later and their strategies and plans came crashing down, Xia is put in a perilous position where she is about to be enslaved by the army.
At this moment, Joji realises the consequences that would occur if Xia, who is the most capable to take down the being, was taken and so does what is needed. He pushes her out of the way and gets enslaved instead.
Mournful night
Xia mourns the loss of her friend and a melancholic atmosphere is created as she picks up the hat left behind by Joji.
With her heart and mind riled up, she investigates further into the occurrences that took place before the being appeared. She uncovers that this being is in fact Emperor Genjo who died in battle many years ago and was now reawakened with the help of a person indulging in witchcraft.
He died because his army deserted him out of cowardice and fear and now that he is reawakened, he desires to create the strongest army there has ever been.
His army had brought DISHONOUR upon his name and hence the title of the book.
Xia fights
With the newfound revelations, Xia knows exactly what is to be done. She is calm and collected as she withdraws her sword to bring down Emperor Genjo in this last and final encounter.
The ending??? Buy my book 🙂 when it publishes.