He was a ‘loyal’ third son, cutting down all who stood in his mother’s way. He served as best as he could, shaping her an empire that would stretch through a continent. But she had only ever used him as a tool: a weapon. When he finally had enough, turning on her, he was struck down. Yet death was not the end. Reborn in a rival nation as its Queen’s Royal Messenger, he will rise once again—not as a weapon, but as a force of his own, now armed with [SHADOW MAGIC] and a chance to defy his past by striking back at his previous master. Thus, the Shadow Herald’s mandate begins.