Bow to 10-Year-Old Archmage Aldric

At ten years old, Odric of the Morvin family’s collateral line is condemned as a mute magical failure and driven away with his sick mother. After losing her, he comes back quiet and overlooked—but behind that silence lives the soul of the dark wizard Malogos, and for seven years he has honed forbidden magic. Though his relatives despise him, the patriarch takes notice, and even Archmage Emery is stunned by his space arrays, elemental disturbances, and the power to reverse time. As his unrestrained magic shocks Queen Victoria and Merlin, Odric endures one last round of mockery at the royal gala—then finally speaks, with mages bowing around him, and stands before the queen to begin his reckoning.