Reborn as a Red Dragon: Apprenticed to the Scummy Crystal Sage

Betrayed by his closest friend and murdered as a summoned hero, he awakens reborn as a mighty Red Dragon in a merciless world. Without a dragon mother to protect him, survival seems impossible—until a mysterious Crystal Dragon takes him as her apprentice. The Crystal Sage is beautiful, powerful, and utterly unscrupulous. But rebirth brings revelation: his hero skill allows him to steal talents from any creature he acknowledges as superior. Now, under the tutelage of his morally questionable master, the young dragon Gnarrus begins his cunning ascent to supremacy.