The Beginning after the End series cover

The Beginning after the End

Early Years (The Beginning after the End, #1) by TurtleMe introduces King Grey, a man once unmatched in strength and status in a martial world, now reincarnated into a realm of magic and monsters. As he navigates this new life, he confronts the task of overcoming past errors while facing emerging threats that challenge the stability of his surroundings. The story blends elements of fantasy and adventure with themes of purpose and renewal in a young adult setting.
9 Books
4.4 Avg Rating
Goodreads

Books in the Series

Early Years

Early Years

Early Years (The Beginning after the End, #1) by TurtleMe introduces King Grey, a man once unmatched in strength and status in a martial world, now reincarnated into a realm of magic and monsters. As he navigates this new life, he confronts the task of overcoming past errors while facing emerging threats that challenge the stability of his surroundings. The story blends elements of fantasy and adventure with themes of purpose and renewal in a young adult setting.

New Heights

New Heights

In New Heights, TurtleMe continues Arthur Leywin’s reincarnation story as he pushes his magical and martial abilities far beyond his life as King Grey. Hiding his identity behind the mask of the adventurer Note, Arthur explores dangerous dungeons beneath the Beast Glades, confronting monsters and testing the limits of his dragon-linked powers. A responsive magical blade, a gifted young conjurer with a hidden past, and the deadly Elderwood Guardian each force him to adapt in this progression-focused epic fantasy. When a conflict with a skilled conjurer from an influential family escalates, Arthur’s future at school and on the battlefield is threatened, sharpening the stakes of his quest to protect those he cares about.

Beckoning Fates

Beckoning Fates

In Beckoning Fates, TurtleMe continues Arthur Leywin’s story as he exchanges the battlefield and council chamber for the fraught environment of Xyrus Academy. Now a reincarnated former king in a young student’s body, Arthur tries to refine his magic and martial skills while contending with petty academic politics, unqualified instructors, and rival classmates. His attempts to balance school life, complicated relationships, and his hidden past are disrupted when a supposedly simple dungeon excursion reveals dangers far beyond a normal training exercise. This installment in the fantasy progression series deepens the world of dragons, monsters, and war while keeping its focus on Arthur’s growth and the consequences of his previous life.

Horizon's Edge

Horizon's Edge

Horizon’s Edge by TurtleMe continues Arthur Leywin’s reincarnated life as a former king now trapped in a young body, navigating a world of magic, dragons, and looming war. As his strength grows, so do the consequences of his choices: a trusted friend is overtaken by a dangerous power he helped awaken, while a long-standing rival embraces a sinister force that threatens the fragile safety of Xyrus Academy. Torn between his role as a student and a warrior shaped by past battles, Arthur must confront enemies both monstrous and human while knowing that his presence endangers the very family he wants to protect. This installment deepens the series’ progression fantasy focus, blending academy life, martial arts–inspired combat, and epic stakes.

Convergence

Convergence

Convergence by TurtleMe continues the fantasy saga of Arthur Leywin, a reincarnated mage whose hidden identity can no longer remain secret. Standing trial before the rulers of Dicathen for a crime he did not commit, Arthur faces the loss of his magic at the very moment a devastating war between asuras and the Vritra clan looms. To play his part in this escalating conflict of gods, dragons, and monsters, he must first survive judgment and then leave his loved ones behind for the distant realm of divine beings. Blending epic fantasy, progression-style magic, and martial-arts-inspired combat, this installment pushes its young adult protagonist into harsher choices and a broader, more dangerous world.

Transcendence

Transcendence

Transcendence by TurtleMe continues Arthur Leywin’s progression from reincarnated king to embattled mage as war tightens around Dicathen. With enemies adopting new tactics and even his closest companions drawn into the fighting, Arthur is pushed into the dwarven kingdom of Darv, where elemental magic, martial discipline, and political tension intersect. As he confronts powerful Vritra champions and a devastating act of treachery, his resurfacing memories as King Grey complicate every choice he makes. Blending epic fantasy warfare, academy roots, and steadily escalating magical combat, this installment deepens the series’ focus on responsibility, power, and the cost of survival.

Divergence

Divergence

Divergence by TurtleMe continues the epic fantasy saga of Arthur Leywin, a reincarnated king whose past and present identities finally converge. As the truth behind King Grey and Arthur is exposed, the fragile balance of power in the war between Alacrya and Dicathen grows even more unstable. Enemy forces press against coastal strongholds, ancient elven forests, and key mountain defenses, while trusted allies disappear and the alliance of humans, elves, and dwarves begins to fracture. Blending magic, martial arts–style combat, dragons, and large-scale warfare with a young adult sensibility, this volume pushes Arthur toward a decisive choice between his duty to his homeland and his responsibility to those he loves.

Ascension

Ascension

Ascension by TurtleMe continues The Beginning After The End with Arthur Leywin stranded once more in a distant land, cut off from his family and recovering from the consequences of his own overwhelming power. Forced to climb an ancient dungeon layered with monsters, traps, and arcane trials, he must refine his magic and martial abilities while confronting the limits of his will. As Arthur uncovers a primordial force buried within the dungeon’s depths, he faces the risk that this new strength could either consume him or redefine his place in a world at war. Progression, uneasy alliances, and intricate fate magic shape this volume’s blend of epic fantasy, adventure, and young adult themes.

Reckoning

Reckoning

Reckoning by TurtleMe continues Arthur Leywin’s progression from survivor to strategist as he leaves the Relictombs and becomes entangled in the dangerous world of Alacryan politics. Branded a criminal for actions he did not commit, he must navigate hostile courts and hidden agendas while concealing his true strength and ambitions. As Arthur seeks greater magical power and deeper control over Fate, the war against monsters and enemy nations edges closer to his homeland of Dicathen, where his friends and family face mounting peril. The tension between returning to protect them and remaining in enemy territory to influence the larger conflict gives this fantasy adventure a strong sense of urgency and moral complexity.