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Prologue: The Last Rebellion
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Prologue: The Last Rebellion
Epilogue
The universe thought the story had ended.
The Strongest Immortal Emperor had disappeared.
His body was destroyed.
His soul was scattered.
His name was erased from existence.
Everything that represented Aetherion was gone.
But the universe did not understand one thing.
A will that had reached beyond countless limits was not something that could be easily erased.
...
In another universe.
Far away from the place where Aetherion once stood.
A new cycle of existence began.
There were no immortal realms.
No ancient clans.
No endless battles between supreme beings.
No stars trembling beneath the pressure of an Immortal Emperor.
Only a small planet.
Earth.
A world where ordinary humans lived their short lives without knowing the mysteries hidden beyond their understanding.
Among them...
A child was born.
A child who carried a fragment of an existence that once stood above an entire universe.
His parents looked at him with happiness.
They did not see an Immortal Emperor.
They did not see a being who had fought against the universe itself.
They only saw their newborn son.
A child who had just entered the world.
They named him...
Adrian Voss.
But unlike his previous existence...
This life was completely different.
The moment he was born...
His body was already weak.
A body that seemed unable to contain the life within it.
His physical condition was fragile.
His growth was slower than other children.
Illness followed him from a young age.
While other children ran freely outside...
Adrian often remained inside, watching the world through a window.
His body was like a prison.
A prison completely different from the universe that had once imprisoned Aetherion.
In his previous life...
The universe feared his existence.
In this life...
His own body rejected him.
As he grew older...
More problems appeared.
His appearance was ordinary at best, and many people considered him unattractive.
His voice never developed like others.
Even after reaching adulthood...
His voice remained unusually high and childish.
Something that caused him embarrassment countless times.
Something that made him hide himself from others.
He hated hearing his own voice.
He hated seeing his weak reflection.
He hated the feeling of being different.
But those were only the physical problems.
The world itself seemed to constantly push him down.
Bad luck followed him wherever he went.
Small accidents.
Unexpected problems.
Unfortunate situations.
Things that seemed impossible to happen...
Always happened to him.
Sometimes Adrian wondered...
Was the universe itself against him?
Was he born just to suffer?
While others moved forward naturally...
He felt like every step required ten times more effort.
Every achievement came with pain.
Every happiness disappeared too quickly.
His body was weak.
His confidence was broken.
His life was filled with invisible chains.
Yet...
Deep inside that fragile body...
Something remained.
A small flame.
A will that refused to disappear.
Even though Adrian did not know it...
The same will that once challenged an entire universe was sleeping within him.
But unlike Aetherion...
Adrian Voss was not born as a supreme existence.
He was born as a normal human.
A human carrying a forgotten legacy.
A human who would have to discover himself before discovering his power.
For twenty-four years...
He lived without knowing the truth.
He believed he was simply unlucky.
He believed he was simply weak.
He believed his life was nothing special.
Until one ordinary day...
After completing his first seminar for his graduation thesis...
While sitting alone at home with a cup of coffee...
Something inside him awakened.
A memory that did not belong to him.
A feeling that came from a life he never lived.
A voice from a past that was not another person...
But a part of himself.
The sleeping will of the Strongest Immortal Emperor began to open its eyes.
And Adrian Voss's ordinary life...
Was about to change forever.