THE GOD OF REGRESSION
ARC 1 — THE MAN WHO LOST EVERYTHING
What the reader sees:
The story opens in chaos. The world is already broken — apocalypse has begun. Portals have opened across the planet. Monsters pour through. Cities fall. Humanity awakens powers to fight back. Academies rise. The world changes completely.
In the middle of all this we meet Kael.
He is not a hero. He does not stand on the frontlines. He keeps his head down, moves quietly, observes everything and trusts nobody. He is cold, calculated and strikingly beautiful in a way that makes people uncomfortable. He seems like someone carrying a weight nobody else can see.
The reader does not know why yet.
Kael has a power — Regression. When he dies the world resets. He comes back. He remembers everything. Everyone else forgets.
He has died many times. The reader slowly realizes this is not his first reset — it is one of many. How many? Unknown. The reader only feels the exhaustion in his eyes.
The mystery the reader feels:
Why does Kael seem like he has given up? Why does he move like someone who already knows how everything ends? What happened to him?
The tragedy of Nael:
Kael crosses paths with Nael — a young woman with the ability to control things around her. She is warm, direct and completely unaware of how deeply Kael watches her.
The reader sees Kael around Nael differently. His coldness softens by a fraction. Barely noticeable. But it is there.
Then disaster strikes — something completely outside anyone's control. Nael dies.
The reader witnesses Kael's reaction. He does not scream. He does not cry. He goes completely still. And then the world resets.
What the reader does not know yet:
This has happened before. Many times. Kael has watched Nael die across countless timelines. The stillness is not shock — it is a man who has broken and rebuilt himself so many times he no longer knows what breaking feels like.
The breaking point:
This timeline Kael makes a different choice. Instead of trying to save the world again he goes after the orbs — four mysterious objects connected to the apocalypse itself. Angel. Demon. Fairy. Demigod.
The reader does not fully understand why yet. Only that Kael has decided something has to change.
The question the reader asks:
What are the orbs? Why does Kael think absorbing them will change anything? And what is he really trying to do — save the world or save himself?