Son of the Dragon: The Definitive History of Mihnea cel Rău

Previously

…Suddenly, a harsh rapping echoed from the main gate, shattering the silence of the night. It was not the familiar, measured knock of a trusted visitor. This was a demand, a forceful intrusion. Mihnea’s blood ran cold. He looked at the documents in his hands, at the sealed scroll, the culmination of his father’s desperate struggle. He understood, with a terrifying clarity, that ‘the serpent’s coil’ had found him. They were not merely seeking to erase history; they were actively hunting for the very proof of his father’s true intentions. And they would stop at nothing to destroy it. The hidden repository had been compromised. The threat was no longer a shadow; it was at his very doorstep.