INTERNIUM: From Nobody, To World's Strongest Knight

Lore grew up with nothing. No name worth knowing, no family worth claiming, no future the slums of Lumina were willing to offer him. What he had was a rusted blade, a stolen book, and the kind of stubbornness that doesn't know when to quit.
Now he's a Magic Knight — the lowest rung of the most powerful order in Internia — and the gap between where he stands and where he intends to go is vast. Knight Kings are the most powerful warriors in the land, legends in their own lifetimes, and above even them sits the FirWul council — five whose names alone reshape the fate of nations. Lore intends to stand among them one day. The world between here and there has other plans.
Ancient ruins that shouldn't exist. A continent on the edge of war. Entire civilizations arriving from across the ocean, carrying histories and secrets that Internia isn't ready for. And a darkness spreading from the east that doesn't negotiate, doesn't retreat, and doesn't care how strong anyone gets. What begins as one man's climb becomes something much larger than he bargained for — and far more beautiful, brutal, and strange than anything the slums of Lumina ever prepared him to face.
He's going to see all of it. And he is going to become something the world has never seen.