Traitors, Meet Her Dragon

Mora Grey is the Beast Tamer Academy's most outstanding student. She raised and trained two spirit beasts—Aiden, a white fox, and Cole, a black panther—into the academy's most powerful combat partners. But both are secretly bribed by Isa Black, the headmaster's jealous daughter. Isa orders them to drug Mora with a forbidden potion that destroys her magic, drag her to a snowy cliff, shoot an arrow through her shoulder, and push her into the abyss. Mora falls into the mist-shrouded wasteland and, on the verge of death, grabs a mysterious man named Draven Thorne—a cursed dragon sealed by the royal family, trapped in serpentine form for eternity. Swearing an oath, Mora forces a blood-bound soul contract: if she dies, he dies too. Draven saves her, using ancient dragon power to reconstruct her body, leaving him severely wounded and transformed into a silver-and-black feathered serpent coiled around her shoulder. Mora returns to the academy. Everyone believes she is dead; Isa parades Aiden and Cole as her own. Mora walks into the arena and boldly announces the forbidden name—Draven Thorne. Flames consume anyone who speaks it. When she places her hand on the Spirit Testing Pillar, golden light erupts, a massive water dragon tears through the clouds, and her SSS-level power crushes everyone present.