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The Monarch of Elos
Master of schemes and a talented swordsman, Kaliyan is a capable hound, an agent who serves Count Puivert. His ultimate goal is to restore the house of Elos, his fallen family. However, ruin comes to his dreams and ambition when the count sends his men to purge him at the request of his spiteful daughter. Fatally wounded, Kaliyan awaits death on the field. But instead of the reaper’s cold embrace, he travels back in time and ends up in the weak, undeveloped body of his young self. Kaliyan must now craft new stratagems and train himself fiercely in order to survive the cruel past and achieve his grand goals. Will he prevail, or will his goliath enemies claim victory once again? WARNING: This story contains depictions of violence, gore, substance abuse, and sexual assault that may be upsetting for some readers.
Chapter 1: Prologue
It doesn’t feel great to live as someone’s hound.
To be more precise, it feels utterly foul.
It means doing whatever that person doesn’t want to do, and enduring curses and scorns from others in that person’s stead.
Such is the despicable life of a hound, but it was I who voluntarily became his hound.
Why?
Because he had the power to fulfill my greatest wishes.
Because he had the power to restore everything that I had lost.
Only fools would do others’ dirty work for them without wanting something in return.
Ultimately, I carried out his devious, wretched schemes for ten years to realize my ambitions.
Every single day, my hands were stained with blood.
As time passed by, I was certain that my aspirations would come true, for I had enough skills and wits to handle his missions perfectly.
But my aspirations blinded me from seeing the most important facts: a hound is always just a hound, and at the end of the hunt, the hound is the one who is served on the table to the hunter.
When I came to that realization, I had already ventured out too far.