
by AIKA.L
In the mud and blood of a forgotten battlefield, a 16-year-old boy from 1995 opens his eyes in a dead man’s body.No system. No cheat. No way home. Trapped in the brutal Normandy-Brittany borderlands—a lawless frontier ravaged by the Hundred Years’ War—Malthus has no name worth trading on and no combat training beyond what his dead body remembers in its bones. To survive a world where winter kills faster than steel and mercy is a luxury, he must rely on a 20th-century mind. He knows about organization, sanitation, and risk management. He knows how to stay steady when the world tilts. And in a medieval meat-grinder, that turns out to be worth more than a sword. Borderlands Rogue Soul follows Malthus, a quiet, calculating survivor who must merge 20th-century logic with medieval instinct to carve out a place for himself in a world that devours the weak.Low-magic. High-stakes. Gritty historical dark fantasy.From starving fugitive to something more, he will gather a broken group and fight to build order in a land of chaos — one bloody decision at a time.Expect:·Gritty Survival & Base-Building: From surviving frostbite and fever to building a working manor from ruins.High-Stakes Politics: Navigating ruthless border lords and Church inquisitors who erase inconvenient truths.·Slow-burn team-building and hard-earned loyalty·Brutal yet strategic battles·Historical Dark Fantasy: Low-magic ambiguity rooted in old Celtic stones, Roman ruins, and forgotten shrines. If you enjoy grimdark historical fantasy with realistic progression and the weight of leadership — think The Black Company meets Between Two Fires — then welcome to the border.
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| 1 | Chapter 1: Waking in Another World | 0 |
| 2 | Chapter 2: Broken Memories | 0 |
| 3 | Chapter 3: The First Nigh | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 4: The Water Problem | 0 |
| 5 | Chapter 5: Traps and Prey | 0 |
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| Chapter 6: The Uninvited Guest |
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| 7 | Chapter 7: Border Geography | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 8: Tool Making | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 9: The Moral Test | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 10: Fever | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 11: Recovery | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 12: Forced March | 0 |
| 13 | Chapter 13: Edge of the Ruins | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 14: Watching and Waiting | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 15: Clean Hands | 0 |
| 16 | Chapter 16: Camp Politics | 0 |
| 17 | Chapter 17: The Purge | 0 |
| 18 | Chapter 18: Bloody Dawn | 0 |
| 19 | Chapter 19: Spoils and Fractures | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 20: The Night of Leaving | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 21: Smoke at the Forest's Edge | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 22: Saint Severin's Bell Tower | 0 |
| 23 | Chapter 23: The Boy in the Crypt | 0 |
| 24 | Chapter 24: Carrying the Books | 0 |
| 25 | Chapter 25: The Shadow Behind | 0 |
| 26 | Chapter 26: The Shape of the Oath | 0 |
| 27 | Chapter 27: The Letter and the Horses | 0 |
| 28 | Chapter 28: Blackstone Tower's First Shadow | 0 |
| 29 | Chapter 29: The Night Hunt in the Forest | 0 |
| 30 | Chapter 30: The Right-Hand Gesture | 0 |
| 31 | Chapter 31: The Return Riders and the Council | 0 |
| 32 | Chapter 32: The Reunion in the Forest | 0 |
| 33 | Chapter 33: The Knight and the Cadet | 0 |
| 34 | Chapter 34: The Tower Before Dawn | 0 |
| 35 | Chapter 35: The Ledger and the Fracture | 0 |
| 36 | Chapter 36: Their Separate Roads | 0 |
| 37 | Chapter 37: First Steps on the Hidden Road | 0 |
| 38 | Chapter 38: The Fireless Night | 0 |
| 39 | Chapter 39: The Old Bridge and the False Deer | 0 |
| 40 | Chapter 40: The White Feather | 0 |
| 41 | Chapter 41: The Third Arrow | 0 |
| 42 | Chapter 42: The Salt Hall | 0 |
| 43 | Chapter 43: The One Who Never Arrived | 0 |
| 44 | Chapter 44: At the Broken Bridge | 0 |
| 45 | Chapter 45: Another Arrow | 0 |
| 46 | Chapter 46: Splitting Forces | 0 |
| 47 | Chapter 47: The Letter in the Oilcloth | 0 |
| 48 | Chapter 48: Night Raid on the Donkey Road | 0 |
| 49 | Chapter 49: Dead Water and Living Road | 0 |
| 50 | Chapter 50: Iron on the Official Road | 0 |
| 51 | Chapter 51: Blizzard and the Blind Man | 0 |
| 52 | Chapter 52: One Night in the Firewood Room | 0 |
| 53 | Chapter 53: One Step Away | 0 |
| 54 | Chapter 54: The Empty Cart Wheels | 0 |
| 55 | Chapter 55: The Hidden Pass | 0 |
| 56 | Chapter 56: The Iron Gate of Tours | 0 |
| 57 | Chapter 57: She | 0 |
| 58 | Chapter 58: The Black Market and the Gray Beeswax | 0 |
| 59 | Chapter 59: The Drainage Channel | 0 |
| 60 | Chapter 60: Blue Bricks and White Robes | 0 |
| 61 | Chapter 61: The Sunset Appointment | 0 |
| 62 | Chapter 62: Bread and Salt | 0 |
| 63 | Chapter 63: The East Dock | 0 |
| 64 | Chapter 64: Three Routes | 0 |