Legionnaire

Wade Archer wanted a test. He got a war.
After years of pain, therapy, sleepless nights, and feeling like the best parts of himself were buried somewhere he could not reach, Wade heads into the mountains alone. One bad storm, one wrong step, and one impossible fall later, he wakes on a battlefield that should not exist.
Armor. Swords. Dead men. Monsters. Magic.
And one dying woman in black armor who needs his help.
Wade saves her life, but that single choice pulls him into the Asterran Legion, an elite military force fighting a brutal war in a world where power is measured, magic has rules, and survival is never guaranteed.
He is older than the other recruits. Damaged. Out of place. Armed with nothing but stubbornness, old training, and a strange talent no one fully understands.
But the Legion does not care where he came from.
Only whether he can endure.
As Wade struggles through selection, bonds with dangerous magic, and earns his place among soldiers who live and die by steel, discipline, and trust, he discovers that this new world may not have saved him.
It may have simply given him another war to fight.
And this time, walking away is not an option.