March of the Ten Thousand Echoes

Jaskier Drozd appears to be a cheerful fool, a boy whose optimism is tragically out of place at his own father's funeral. Burdened by his family's sudden fall from grace and the predatory gleam in the eyes of their rivals, he feels utterly powerless. That is, until a cryptic system awakens within him: the 'Legacy of the Endless March'. Every single step he takes is now amplified, granting him the equivalent of ten thousand steps of physical conditioning and martial practice. A short walk to the market becomes a decade of training; a brief stroll in the woods, a century of honing his power. To the world, he's just a boy pacing nervously. Internally, his power spirals to unimaginable heights with every footfall. He plans to use this impossible strength to shield his grieving mother and sister, but he is not the only one with a secret. A rival, Dawid Sroka, has returned from a doomed future with one goal: to destroy Jaskier before his 'endless march' can bring ruin to the world again. Faced with an enemy who knows his every future move, can Jaskier's exponential growth protect his family, or will every step he takes only lead them faster towards the very damnation his rival seeks to prevent?