Biography of Angers.
"Time is a wound, and I am the scab on that wound that never heals."
In the late autumn of Cambridge in 1894, Hilbert Jean Angers was just a sixteen-year-old orphan, looking for a home in ancient books and poetry collections. Until the gray-eyed German young man Meineke Cassel walked up to him and handed him a badge engraved with the half-decayed World Tree.
"Welcome to the real world," Menek said. "Here, dragons are not legends, and you are their descendants."
From then on, Angers stepped into the battlefield in the shadows. He joined the Lionheart Society and made a blood oath with seven companions from all over the world: they believed that with wisdom, courage and dragon blood, they could protect mankind from the darkness.
It was not until the summer of 1900 that the disaster later known as the "Summer of Mourning" crushed all vows into dust. The Lionheart Society was almost completely destroyed, and twenty-five companions were reduced to unrecognizable remains in the scorched earth. Only Angers survived, and the hands of his pocket watch forever stopped at 3:17 in the afternoon.
From that day Hilbert Jean Angers died. What survives is a lonely revenge machine.
He runs the Kassel Academy and trains generations of dragon slayers; he wanders in the shadow of world wars, hunting awakened dragons in the cracks of human strife; he raises glasses elegantly, smiles appropriately, and always carries the stopped pocket watch in his suit pocket.
Until the Chinese boy named Lu Mingfei appeared.
When the dragon kings wake up one after another, and when the dusty history is torn apart by the bloody truth, Angers must face the ultimate choice: Should he continue the century-old road of revenge, or try the untrodden road of reconciliation?
