Dragon Bastard's Revenge: Eighteen Phoenix Maidens

His mother was sacrificed to the river god—ten months later, she crawled back pregnant with a monster. Born as the Dragon King's bastard, he was marked for death from his first breath. Only his master's desperate gambit saved him: eighteen phoenix maidens bound their fates to his, masking his draconic blood from the tyrant who sired him. For eighteen years, they protected him. For eighteen years, those same protectors fed on his power to rise to glory. Now they cast him aside—scorning him, humiliating him, breaking their oaths one by one. They think him weak. They think him broken. They forget…