The Dragonless Beggar Commands Nine Dragons

At the Dragon Taming Ceremony, nine royal dragon eggs all lock onto a nameless boy. The court falls silent — this is Rayne, exiled a decade ago on false charges. Ten years earlier, he saved the Dragon King Kexeleros. Today the King sends him back with the eggs — not for a crown, but to judge the traitors who betrayed him. Yet the power the dragons promise carries a cost no one has spoken of.