REWRITTEN (after 2025, 16 September)  [Rewritten till chapter -- 60]:                                                                                                       

In a world where history itself has been erased, fragments of a broken power whisper promises of godhood. 

An orphan boy, a weary warlord, and a relentless seeker are drawn into a struggle that pits memory against ambition, truth against empire.

From forgotten ruins to shifting thrones, the path to ascension demands sacrifice, and no one who grasps a fragment leaves whole.

The forest was too still. Not the calm, familiar kind of stillness that wrapped around campfires or quiet streams, but the suffocating, oppressive silence of a predator's breath, the moment before teeth sink in, when the world seems to pause in anticipation of violence. Even the wind dared not stir, and the droplets clinging to leaves hung like frozen time. The scent of wet earth, moss, and broken bark thickened the air, each inhalation a reminder that nothing natural remained untainted here.


Chapter 124 - The Hollow Standoff