The Shadow Sovereign: Rise of the Null

A Null has no right to live.

In the Dragoon Empire, your dragon defines your destiny. Fifteen-year-old Kaelen Vance was an orphan servant with big dreams-until the Awakening Altar tested his mana at absolute zero. Branded a "Null," he was stripped of his name, mocked by noble heirs, and cast off the cliff into the Whispering Abyss to be eaten by rogue beasts.

But Kaelen didn't die.

At the bottom of the dark chasm, he bleeds onto a pitch-black, cracked egg pulsing with violet lightning.