Confident Stride

Steelforged Legacy, Book 2

By: M. Tress

Narrated by: Lewis Alexander, Rozelyn Rader

Settling into the new pace of his life, Casey Sullivan thought that he’d left behind the idiocy of people with overinflated senses of self worth. But even on another world, around people that worked magic into their everyday life but owed their allegiance to the Norse gods of old, one truth remains:

You can’t fix stupid.

Thankfully, it’s possible to muffle the idiocy of people that he doesn’t want to deal with, as long as Casey keeps moving. All except for the bit of four-legged mischief that has decided to follow him.

After his last battle—in which Casey was forced to face off against a young master to the Bronze Fist clan—Casey now has a friend to talk to besides his lover, Maude. Though the looks he might draw from talking to an elk are about as strange as the ones he was getting for conversing with his weapon.

The young Gladewalker Elk, a fantastical creature that hunters prize as one of the greatest types of prey, has decided to tag along with Casey’s adventures. Now whether that is to repay the favor, or because he likes the snacks that Casey has with him is entirely up to the judgment of the observer.

As a trio of misfits, Casey, Maude, and the Gladewalker Elk have to find a way to slip out of the Bronze Fist lands before someone notices the missing scion and figures out what happened to him. All while still moving north, drawn by the call of the Roaring Mountain clan, where Casey hopes to reunite with his friend Einar.

Steelforged Legacy is a progression fantasy, men's romance, western cultivation story that takes heavy inspiration from classic cultivation and combines it with an alternate take on Norse mythology. Even the gods can't always see the future right, and the world it is set in takes advantage of the fact that sometimes, even the Fates can make mistakes.

©2025 M. Tress (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

The relationship between the two characters is going beyond some other in similar books.

The slow burn of the getting other woman to join him. it's taking to long

Story and pacing

This pics up where the first book left off. What will happen once Loki’s daughter consumes more swords. I can’t wait to find out.

Another great book

another great book by one one of my new favorite authors, I have yet to find a series that I don’t like written by this author really enjoying the progression of Casey skills and hours looking forward to the next book

it's a good book but the mc

love the book story and the world building but I get tired of how much of a boy scout the mc is he makes all the trouble he gets into and ask why is this happening, and then complaines that he is the situations he is In.