In Aldoria, glory belongs to bloodlines — noble birth, awakened talent, divine blessings.
Ethan Cole had none of those. Just a soldier’s will, a captain’s sword, and a secret that got him killed.
Branded a traitor. Executed at dawn. Forgotten by the kingdom he bled for.
That should’ve been the end.
But the blade had other plans.
He wakes thirty years in the past — sixteen again, trapped in a boy’s body, with the memories of a betrayed war hero and a sword that answers only to him.
No prophecy. No system. No second chance handed to him on a silver platter.
Just knowledge of what’s coming: the rise of blood cults, the fall of the true royal line, and a kingdom rotting behind its golden crown.
This time, he won’t play the loyal hound.
This time, he’ll train in secret, infiltrate the Academy that shaped him, and carve his own path — not as a knight of the realm, but as the blade that severs its lies.
They took everything from him once.
Now he’s taking it back — one strike at a time..