Unpausing the Serpent Spire
By @john1208
My morning started like any other - until I went to brush my teeth and stared into the reflection of Niran, the Naga-Spire Institute's most despised coward. A bureaucratic error in the time-stream had swapped my soul into this slacker's body, exactly five years before the corrupted deity Kalagya turns my beloved Mali into a weeping stone statue. Being painfully shy in a notoriously hated body is a nightmare. Worse, to hide my veteran Chronomancer class, I have to pretend to be a 'speedster.' I literally just pause time, casually stroll past my enemies, and unpause. Easy, right? Wrong. Because Arthit, an arrogant jerk who thinks he is the sole time-traveler, won't stop bullying my friends to rewrite history in his favor. When Arthit pushes me too far during a public spar, I finally snap. With a heavy sigh, I take off the temporal suppression ring weighing down my finger. Will the academy survive a 'speedster' who suddenly freezes time itself to deliver a very overdue slap?
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