Pretender Of Heaven

**"He was left to die. He forgot to."** *** They shattered his bones while they were soft. They destroyed his veins so he could never channel energy. They poisoned his foundation to ensure the last of a legendary bloodline would never hold a sword. The dark masters who broke him walked away certain. Whatever dormant power the boy held — it was dead. The bloodline was finished. But a lion's cub is still a lion. Found unconscious, broken, and stripped of every memory, the boy is taken in by a powerful and enigmatic merchant. Hidden within the walls of a quiet countryside manor, something impossible begins to happen. Without awakening. Without intact veins. His shattered body simply refuses to die. The torture meant to kill him didn't end his life — it triggered something far worse. His power isn't dead. It is adapting. Evolving. Driven by an agonizing, hollow hunger, the boy is regenerating into something the world has never seen before. The shadows believe the bloodline is broken. *They don't realize they just forged a monster.* ***