The Egg Knight and the Dragon
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
Published: June 2025
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9798288056345
First sentence: Ilooked around at the countryside as I rode through it: the peasants and farmers were busying themselves gathering the last of the harvest and storing it and ploughing the fields to prepare for sowing the winter wheat. In a few months all activity would stop, and everything would be quiet until spring; and by the looks of it, we would have a mild winter, too. It was already mid-summer, and the weather was hot and oppressive, which usually brought late frost and little snow later in the year. All for the better: this way, maybe the poor would have enough of their crops left over after paying the usual tithe to the Crown so they would not go hungry.
Description: Being a knight in service of the Undying Emperor is not easy, especially for someone like Adrian, the Egg Knight: oppressing the people of the Empire is against everything he's been taught, and if he could, he would kill the Emperor himself and bring his thousand-year reign to an end. 
But the Emperor is not only undying, but unkillable as well, and no one who dared defy him has ever lived to tell the tale; Adrian himself has been a witness to several futile attempts on the Emperor's life, each ending in complete failure. So he does the Emperor's bidding and does his best to help the common people, but sorely wishes he could do more.
"Go and collect taxes," the Emperor says, and Adrian goes and collects taxes.
"Go and put down the rebellion," the Emperor orders, and Adrian goes and puts down the rebellion.
"Go and slay the dragon," the Emperor commands, and Adrian goes and slays the dragon... or tries to, at least. 
Because the dragon is no mindless beast, and...