Chronos Awakening

Kael, a retired war veteran haunted by the memory of his squad's annihilation, lives a quiet life until a dying mentor bestows upon him a shattered pocket watch. This isn't just an heirloom; it's a 'Temporal Echo' device, allowing Kael to glimpse seconds into the future, reacting with impossible speed and precision. But the echoes come with a cost, fragmenting his mind and pulling him into a shadow war against the Chronos Syndicate, a global cabal exploiting temporal anomalies for power. They seek a legendary artifact that could rewrite history, threatening to erase not just nations, but the very timeline that defines his past trauma. Kael must master his unstable gift and confront his past to prevent a future where humanity's fate is dictated by a ruthless, time-bending elite, or watch everything he failed to protect vanish forever.