My Family Stole My Glory. Now the Barbarians Kneel to Me

Synopsis

For ten years, Cedric Vane bled on the frozen walls of Greyrock Keep, slaughtering barbarians with nothing but rusted blades and frozen roots—only to return home and find his own parents had erased his name, stuffed his decade of bloodshed into his cowardly brother Lucian's mouth, and crowned the fraud a "hero" to win a royal bride. After catching his father selling twenty thousand sets of military gear to enemy traders, Cedric signed a Blood Severance Pact, severed his family ties, and vanished into the northern snow with three hundred loyal veterans. But when Lucian's five thousand troops shattered in two hours and Greyrock Keep fell to the barbarian horde, the kingdom's desperate pleas for salvation reached only silence—until Cedric descended from the clouds on a golden-eyed griffin, his body reforged by ancient dragon blood, and impaled the barbarian chieftain with a single lance. The king stripped his father of every title, Lucian became the kingdom's laughingstock, and Princess Cordelia—who uncovered the truth all along—placed the Northern Guardian medal on Cedric's chest. The family that threw him away now watches from the dirt. The son they buried rose as their king.