Lackey's Seducing Survival Odyssey

Chapter 559 Pas(sed)t : Arkanis Dragonheart (A Feared boy)- Part-1

Arkanis Dragonheartʼs POV

My name is Arkanis Dragonheart, son of the one and only Dragon Emperor who reigns over the Pyra Fulgur Empire.

Since I was young, I believed that power was my birthright, as natural to me as breathing.

”My son... one day, this land will belong to you!” My fatherʼs voice, deep and commanding, echoed with pride. He looked down at me with a rare, unguarded smile.

I was enraptured by those words.

One day, this world—his world—would be mine. A surge of joy and pride filled my chest, like fire blazing through my veins.

”Hey, you!” Iʼd say, my head held high to anyone who dared underestimate me. ”Iʼm the Future Dragon Emperor!” The title tasted so sweet, my pride swelling each time I claimed it.

For a long while, life was good. I basked in my fatherʼs glory, dreaming of the day Iʼd inherit his throne.... But then, one day, everything began to change.

My fatherʼs body—the powerful, youthful figure I admired—started ageing rapidly. Seemingly overnight, he went from a man in his prime to a weary figure marked by years that shouldnʼt have been his.

Confused and alarmed, I questioned him, but he only brushed me off with a weak smile, avoiding my gaze. His silence haunted me, and the servantsʼ whispers did nothing to help.

”It seems his time is running out,” I overheard one day.

”Yes, itʼs tragic... heʼs been a good Dragon Emperor, unlike the previous ones”

My heart thudded.

Their words, hinted with sorrow and pity, left me cold. The future I had once embraced with such pride now seemed wrapped in shadows.

I confronted my father, my questions mounting. ”Tell me, Father! Why are you ageing faster than anyone else?” My voice trembled with frustration and fear. This time, I dared to ask a question that had haunted me my whole life. ”And who is my mother? Why does everyone else have a mother except me?”

He turned away, coughing weakly. ”Son, please...

cough, cough

you must understand, this just a—”

”No! I donʼt want excuses—I want the truth!” My desperation drowned out my concern for his health.

I wanted answers!

Finally, he relented. Haltingly, he told me everything—the curse in our bloodline, the origin of our powers, and the dark legacy of the Phoenixes. He told me about my mother, who had given her life to bring me into this world, her death a tragic consequence of the same curse that was now consuming him.

”S-so please, Arkanis...” he rasped. ”You need to accept—”

But I didnʼt wait to hear the rest. I ran, my mind reeling, my heart pounding with a terror I had never known before.

One day, I would die just as he would—weak, broken, with all my pride crushed under the weight of inevitability.

Search for a ring? That disappeared millennia and hoping to find one day?

Weak and Pathetic!!

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For the first time in my life, I was afraid.

I spent the following days hiding, trying to escape the crushing weight of the truth. I couldnʼt let anyone see my fear. If the servants saw me like this, theyʼd laugh, just as they whispered behind my fatherʼs back.

Theyʼd scorn the Future Dragon Emperor.

The Future Dragon Emperor would not have any kind of disgrace!!

However, I didnʼt know that day was the day everything would change....

While concealed in my closet, I stumbled upon a hidden passage, a secret chamber I never knew existed. In that place, I found something ancient—machines, strange and mysterious, each one humming with power and possibility.

The fear inside me gave way to a fierce glimmer of hope. Maybe—just maybe—these machines could be my salvation.

When I showed the place to my father, he looked as shaken as I felt. In his eyes, I saw the flicker of a hope long buried by despair. He, too, began to believe there might be a way out of this curse.

But the machines werenʼt without cost. They required samples, test subjects to refine the process before we could use it ourselves. I knew what had to be done.

I decided to use the children of the servants who talked behind my fatherʼs back... My father initially opposed me but....

”Father,” I said, determined. ”Are the lives of these servantsʼ children more important than yours? Youʼre the Dragon Emperor. My mother died because of this curse—

your wife

!” My words struck him, and I could see the resolve slowly forming in his gaze. Reluctantly, he agreed.

And so, the tests began.

One by one, the children succumbed. I watched them fall, bodies fragile as autumn leaves, all sacrificed for the greater good.