Marcus's POV

" Are you sure it was the Dragon Lord? "

" Very! I saw him with my own Dragon eyes. I can even swear it on my Dragon Core! "

He was the most worthless specimen of our Dragon race.

I would have preferred maintaining my distance from someone like him but one needed somebody to clean the dirty laundry.

This scoundrel that I befriended years ago in the outskirts was claiming to have access to our missing king.

Would it be delusional to believe him.

But statistically speaking, his news were not known to be unreliable.

Was it really a second chance from the heavens to correct our messed up mission?

" Stay put till I come back! "

I closed the door behind me and went straight inside my study.

This could very well be a trap. I needed to take my precautions. I could not go out of the palace or send for any help. Whatever decision I was to make was going to have to be by myself. And it had to be in the most unsuspicious manner possible.

I began flipping through the pages of my personal j