How To Survive as an Arrogant Young Master
A villain is never the master of his own destiny.
He is there to play a role, to oppose the hero, to generate conflict, and finally, to die.
Their pride is broken, their goals dashed, and their name forgotten, penned only as a footnote in another man's tale.
Leonard von Edevane was supposed to be one of them.
Heir to one of the strong ducal families, he was nothing but an arrogant idiot, destined for humiliation, bereft of everything, and martyred as a stepping stone to the so-called hero.
But what if the villain does not fall?
A stranger from another planet wakes up in Leonard's body, equipped with visions of the future and a mind that will not be tied to a script.
If the world wishes him to play the fool, he will do so, playing the role arrogant, untouchable, the noble young master who commands the academy with supreme confidence.
But beneath that façade there is something much worse.
A man who observes, a man who learns, a man who computes.
A man who will turn foes into pawns, rivals into tools, and destiny into nothing more than an annoyance.
The hero? Merely another pawn on the board.
The academy?
A war zone.
The noble houses?
Puppets in waiting for strings to be pulled.
But as he rewrites his own fate, he starts to unravel secrets that were never in the original story secrets hidden beneath history, powers within bloodlines, and enemies waiting beyond the pages of the story he knew.
A villain's job is to lose.
Leonard von Edevane will be the first to show that a villain can win.
