"The Lighting Warrior" is the first book in The Chronicles of Metorm, introducing Sagiron, a Silvonian boy who had ended up homeless with his father after an accident. He is somewhat miserable hunter and dubbed as the worst swordfighter in the village, dreaming of mundane things and a small adventure to get out of the boring, bleak highlands.

One day, while hunting, he discovers an odd scroll. Little does he know what everyone say is but a trash contains the code of Salat Kata, the Secret Skill, a latent ability of the mind that was long lost. After tragic events, he is left to seek vengeance, and he is determined to become a better warrior.

As the true nature of the scroll is unveiled, it turns him overnight into an unmatched warrior. Confident it will change everything, he travels to see an old order to announce about the discovery, only to end up the middle of a cataclysm. Left with the ultimate responsibility, the enemy searching for the code is already on his tracks, he soon finds out he is in big trouble.

As things escalate, he has to balance between personal matters and greater ideals, and things get more complicated than he initially believed. Those who were supposed to be enemies might turn out to be vital allies.

The Perillean Empire colonizes all of Yanakhon. Prince Chasoir, a knight detective, follows a lead on the Arkman, a treasure hunter linked to the Secret, a code to a latent mental ability hidden in the Temple Ark, catching him after a chase, but finds nothing.

Sagiron(MC) later discovers a scroll left behind by the Arkman, but gets into trouble with bandits, and one of the bandits die chasing him. With his friend Merkhat, Sagiron meets Yahamat, a local madman living in a cottage nearby the village, known to be a Skill Games trainer with symbols like those on the scroll, but he dismisses it as a trash.

A rogue band raids Sagiron's village, blaming him for a death of his friend, demanding a duel. His father, Sargus, dies defending him, and Sagiron is left alone, but spared out of pity. As cavalry comes, Sagiron notices a Whitling boy as the rogues flee.

After his father's funeral, Sagiron gets drunk and passes out. He wakes at Arhim's, a herbmaster who helps him understand Yahamat's madness is due to smoking herbs. During the day, Sagiron participated in a Skill Games match, facing the village bully Percilion, getting humiliated by him, but managing to barely defeat him in a duel.

In the night, they steal the herbs, but not without trouble. The next day, Arhim teaches Sagiron and Merkhat old stories, history and writing, and he knows no more about the scroll.

As weeks pass, Yahamat sobers up, and they re-visit him, and he grows interested in the scroll. Sagiron yearns to avenge his father's death and Yahamat offers to train them. The two train for a month, but as Merkhat turns 16, he's put to the fields.

Sagiron finds Yahamat passed out in his cottage, with templar gear spread out. Yahamat wakes up, vowing Sagiron to keep a secret: the true nature of the scroll is exposed. He teaches Sagiron the Harachim script, and initiates him into the Secret. They practice its use, preparing to depart for the temple to bring the news about the discovery.

Sagiron tests his new ability, being suddenly able to single-handedly defeat the best swordsmen in the village, and manipulate people otherwise, but is careful not to reveal it to anyone. People grow suspicious, however.

During a thunderstorm, Yahamat and Sagiron travel to a plateau, where they test the thunderblade. Sagiron demonstrates its ability to wield lightning and use its tremendous power, but not without cost as he faints.

The village chief steps aside, leaving the place for his son, but Sagiron finds himself in the middle of a murder scene, and ends up as the accused due to the rumors about him. Arhim works for evidence, and with the Secret, Sagiron compels the real culprit to confess. Percilion, the village bully, the statelord's son, becomes the new chief.

The pilgrimage comes, and villagers guess Sagiron's involvement as pilgrims travel through. Sagiron says farewell to Arhim who has his own plans and Sagiron and Yahamat travel to the temple, where the Temple Order assembles. The council receives the news, but starts promptly to indoctrinate the knights for the new interpretations of the teachings. One of the knights is initiated to the Secret, and he duels with Sagiron, demonstrating its capabilities.

The great evening comes, and they prepare to initiate the knights into the Secret, but Arhim appears, warning them of the approaching Crimson Army. Before they could do more, the army already appears to the valley, blocking their way. Yahamat initiates knights into the Secret as fast as he can as the army storms the temple, but their numbers and equipment best the Temple Order, and they are overwhelmed. Chasoir storms the temple with his troops, and Yahamat dies trying to save the scroll.

Sagiron and Arhim escape from the temple using Arhim's history knowledge through the Way of Mashiat, but face a school of heretics, Harachimians, who had also come to the temple discreetly. Led by Arhim's guesswork, they flee the valley along an obscure route through the mountains, evading the siege. Sagiron refuses to join the Harachimians, suspecting their interests.

They return to the village, only to find Merkhat and most others are relegated and everything else gone, including the scroll - hope for a new order. After rest, Arhim has a talk with Sagiron, who admits the Salat Kata is real, and Arhim reveals he had copied it to his Journal. Sagiron manages to initiate Arhim, and they practice, understanding the Crimson Army was there not because of the pilgrims, but because of the scroll that went missing during the Arkman chase. They prepared to leave the village ASAP.

Sagiron goes to pack, and meets his friends at the harvest festival, but an odd bard appears, asking difficult questions. Sagiron notices odd movement and runs to Arhim's house, that has been ransacked. Yaramat and Harrogat, Sagiron's friends come warn them, the guards were planning something and they try to flee, but the village is in lockdown and they are chased to the village square. Using the Secret, Sagiron and Arhim incite a mutiny, sending the villagers to revolt, and they flee the scene, defeating the gate guards and run to pick Sagiron's gear from the cabin.

An elite meusar knight strike force ambushes them, and Prince Chasoir walks up, being the odd bard from the village. Arhim had managed to hide the Journal. They are escorted to the village and the villagers put all blame on them, and Sagiron, Arhim, Yaramat and Harrogat are taken to the capital town Tritoria for further processing. The Statelord Le-Muel reveals he had discovered the Journal and tries to manipulate Arhim to work against the lowly Yoneians to decipher it, but they try to flee instead, to no avail, and end up in a dungeon.

They are served food they suspect tainted, and in the night, Prince Chasoir comes to extract them, thinking they are under the influence, and they are bound and bagged and brought out. Alarm blares in the castle, and Chasoir's attempt to cross the statelord is exposed. Sagiron, Arhim, Yaramat and Harrogat are taken inside during the din of skirmish, but it turns out it was the same boy Sagiron saw in the village when the rogues came-Roy. They release them and they dress as guards and walk out as the guards realize they are missing. Chasoir leaves Tritoria, maddened, as Le-Muel puts up a fight.

The friends sneak into Le-Muel's room to reclaim the Journal, but Le-Muel and Percilion flee through the window. They change guard equipment to temple gear and pick quad bows, and flee the castle along the walls.

As they need to recover the Journal before Le-Muel deciphers it, Sagiron plans to face the rogues and Roy leads them to the rogue band's camp, where Sagiron faces the gigantic rogue chief, but bests him and his goons with ease using the Secret, earning the rogue chief's place as per their rule.

They ride to Gatsemat town, in whose prison fortress rebels are locked in, and they devise a plan to get in. The rogue warrioress Elyara, however, duels Sagiron, who has to find a way out without killing her, and eventually they ride to a hideout. Scouts had found out a route to the Silvon Palace where Le-Muel had fled, and they devise a plan.

They sneak into the palace through a rumored path, and with the help of the slaves they storm the gate and open it for the rogues and rebels. A thunderstorm hits, and Sagiron gets to use the thunderblade, unleashing devastating power at the crimson troops, and by accident, redirects a lightning strike from the sky against the army, decimating it and making it easy for the rogues to defeat them.

They enter the Silvon Palace and face Le-Muel, who hasn't yet deciphered the Secret, and reluctantly gives the Journal back. However, Chasoir's reinforcements are coming, and in the din, Le-Muel flees through a trap door.

The rogues pack their loot and flee the palace to a hideout, where Yaramat and Harrogat leave after Merkhat and the relegated villagers. Sagiron makes Elyara the chief as promised and he and Arhim mull about the fate of the Journal with Roy demanding them to stay.

Brief Synopsis of

The Lightning Warrior