For a thousand years, I was a sword.
I tasted dragon blood, royal wine, and the final breaths of men who believed themselves chosen.
Then my friend said, “Look after my descendants.”
I thought that meant guarding their name. I did not expect to wake inside a prince’s chamber, in a body so soft, spoiled, and talentless it looked like a joke the gods had left unfinished.
Adrian Leonberk. Sixteen. No discipline. No shame. No future.
The court called him a scoundrel. The knights called him a disgrace. The kingdom called him worthless.
But when the brat lifted me and screamed for the power of the Dragon Slayer, I saw the truth.
The line of my friend had not fallen because fate was cruel.
It had fallen because no one had raised it properly.
I had raised knights.
I had raised kings.
I had raised heroes.
I could raise a prince.
So I took his hand. I took his throne. I took his name.
And I became the first prince.