For eighteen years, Aaron had been a magicless servant trampled into the mud. Deliberately sent into the Black Forest to die, he instead saved Princess Isabelle from a high-level monster when the golden dragon mark on his right arm awakened and drove the beast off. Back at the estate, no one believed him. Encouraged by the princess, he entered the kingdom’s Bloodline Awakening Test. His first punch did nothing; his second shattered the sacred testing stone. A golden dragon seal rose into the air, and he was proclaimed the heir to the Golden Dragon King, a power lost for a thousand years. King Victor coveted that power, while the Guardian Elder knelt and opened the Dragon King Trials. Aaron passed three trials—the Heir’s Three Strikes, the Half-Dragon Awakening, and the Heart of the Dragon King—learning to control his dragon flame and refusing revenge. At last, the Dragon Soul acknowledged him but warned that the world would never accept a former servant as king. Clutching the seal, Aaron vows to make them acknowledge him.
