Reborn Thirteenth: The Sword My Brothers Sent

Synopsis

Noah opens his eyes in a palace nursery and finds a stats window waiting for him: level one, no name. Six years later he is the thirteenth of the emperor's sons, and the crown prince arrives on his birthday with a present in a giant box — Leviathan, the cursed water sword that has killed every man unworthy of holding it. His brothers call it a test. Waiting on the other side of it are a flooded village, an officer skimming disaster rations, and a maid with nowhere left to go. In a warrior empire where the throne has more claimants than chairs, a six-year-old is about to be measured.