Kael Blackthorn, the exiled stepson of the arrogant Ashborne family, is framed for fratricide by his jealous half-brother Lucien and imprisoned in the Ashen Monastery for two years.Brought back for his grandfather’s birthday banquet under false mercy, Kael finds his room, mount, and fiancée all stolen by Lucien. He soon learns the cruel truth: the family only retrieves him to use his special dragon vein blood as a medicinal catalyst for Lucien’s cultivation.On the banquet night, Lucien cruelly cuts out half the heart of the guardian dragon Asterion and frames Kael once again. The entire family chooses to believe the lies and abandons Kael again.At the brink of death, the dormant Dark Dragon Judgment Seal awakens on Kael’s hand. He fights his way out of the Black Furnace Arena, founds the powerful Blackbrand Company, and tames the shadow dragon Nyx from the Abandoned Dragon Valley.Returning as a free knight, Kael crushes the royal trial layers and all hostile schemes. In the final dragon flame judgment, he strips Lucien of his false royal blood and forbidden powers, exposing every crime in public.Rejecting the corrupt family’s inheritance, Kael establishes a brand-new order for the abandoned and oppressed. Riding Nyx, he flies to the Northern Territory and starts his invincible new era.…
