Arthur was fifty, tired, and forgotten. He died in a sterile hospital room, a man who had played it safe and lost everything. But death wasn't the end. He wakes up in the body of an eight-year-old boy named Kaelen, in a world where the dirt is stained with blood and the "Middle Ages" are just beginning to crawl out of the dark.
Sold to the Order of the Obsidian Veil, Kaelen is forged into a weapon. But unlike the other orphans, Kaelen has the mind of a man who knows the value of a second chance. As the world transitions from tribal warring to civilized empires, Kaelen moves through the shadows, caught between a forbidden love with a deadly rival and a conspiracy that threatens to undo the very civilization they are building.

In the digital void, Kaelen saw his old life in the 21st century. He saw the office cubicle, the flickering computer screens, the wasted years. But he also saw the "Truth" the Archive held.


Earth hadn't ended once. It had ended thousands of times. Each time, humanity clawed its way back to civilization, only to use the "Aetheria" the leftover energy of the previous fall to destroy itself again.


"Why are you here, Arthur?" the woman's voice asked. It wasn't a recording anymore. It was the Archive's AI.


"Because I'm tired of the cycle," Kaelen replied in his mind. "I was a man who did nothing in my first life. I want to be the man who stops the end in my second."


Chapter 54 - Chapter 54: Memory of the Past Life