My Kingdom Rises With Magical Beasts

Leon Ashbourne has spent his entire life waiting to be chosen.

The youngest son of a frontier city lord, Leon grew up believing in legends—in the mages who arrived at the darkest hour and changed the course of history. He believed, with the quiet certainty of someone who has never been tested, that one day that would be him.

Then the orcs come, and the world stops cooperating with his dreams.

In the brutal aftermath of an invasion that nearly destroys everything he knows, Leon is forced to confront truths that no story ever prepared him for. The life he imagined is gone. The future he expected will never arrive.

But something else does.

An awakening unlike anything the kingdom has ever recorded marks Leon as something the world has no category for—something ancient institutions fear, powerful people hunt, and history has never been kind to.

He wanted to become a legend.

He may have become something far more dangerous instead.