Andrew's ears still rang with the old man's icy words. "Three seals represent three rebirths. If you can shatter the final one and survive, you will rule the world as the chosen one. Fail, and you will become a cursed dragon, bound to destruction."

A cursed dragon was the term used for the fallen heirs of the Lloyd royal family. The Lloyds bore the emblem of the celestial dragon as their crest, and those who thrived under the family's guidance were hailed as true dragons.

However, those who fell from grace, suffered irreversible injuries, betrayed the family, or were expelled were called cursed dragons.

The Lloyds abandoned such people without exception, and in some cases even hunted them down themselves. For example, Andrew's father, Reginal, was known as the most powerful and most dangerous cursed dragon in the Lloyd family's thousand-year history.

If the mysterious old man were right, Andrew's fate would end the same way if he failed to break the third seal in his energy co