Deep Delve to the Darkness: Book 1 - The Glass Vanguard

By Nicholas Schmit

Deep Delve to the Darkness
Book 1: The Glass Vanguard

They descended to chase a legend. They found a graveyard.

A thousand years have passed since the First Heroes plunged into the meteor well, sealed the horrors of the deep, and returned to usher Orowait into a golden age. At least, that is what the archives teach.

Marche, a brilliant and restless Explorer, has grown up worshipping those legends. When he and his three childhood friends-Anna, Leo, and Teitra-are chosen to lead a new expedition down the great well, they expect to map a conquered paradise. Instead, they step into a meat-grinder.

The subterranean layers are a hostile, shifting nightmare of mutated chimeras and forgotten magic. As the team battles their way deeper into the earth, their survival forces them to awaken a latent, ancestral elemental magic hidden in their blood. But the monsters aren't the true threat. As Marche and his team reach the absolute bottom of the world, they uncover a devastating conspiracy: the city above is actively siphoning the ancient quarantine seal, bleeding a trapped god dry. Now, to prevent an apocalyptic breach, the Vanguard must make the exact same, horrific choice their ancestors did-or watch the world burn.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY536WP2
• ISBN13: 9798904176358
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Nicholas Schmit
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"