Prologue

"It is said that you will not realize the value of something unless you lose it first."

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Monday 17th September 2026

Snow avoided a direct blow that would have ended his life thanks to his skill.

"No, that does not look good."

After a long battle, Snow reached his limits, and it can be said that the same applies to his opponent. Both of them wanted to put an end to this battle.

"Neither this one."

I stretched on my office chair after I realized that I had spent several hours and I was shoveling my face into the screen of my personal computer. For the past few hours, anyone passing through my room could have heard the crackling of the keyboard because today, unlike usual, words were pouring out.

However, when I finally regained my senses, I realized that it was already too late because the screen light was the only thing that lit up the room.

I took my phone out of my pocket and looked at the bag to find it two in the morning.

"Looks like I overdid it today."

I shut down my computer and flopped onto the bed, answered messages I'd missed in the last few hours, and wandered around the timeline, liking silly videos or random photos before I finally fell asleep.

Unfortunately, I did not pay attention to today's date, which made me completely forget the fact that on this day I turned a 25-year-old.

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Early morning as expected, I couldn't get up on my own, judging by how late I fell asleep. Fortunately, I was not afraid of this, thanks to the gentle shaking that woke me up from my slumber.

"Wake up, you'll be late for work. Did you stay up writing that novel again? I told you many times not to lose your sense of time when you do that."

I got out of bed slowly, and frankly, my mother's words entered from one ear and came out from the other. I mean, I opened my eyes a few seconds ago, but it showered me with a torrent of words but I didn't hate it, on the contrary, if I wanted I could set an alarm But I wanted her to wake me up instead, a young man this age still relies on his mom to wake him up, I look like a big kid, don't I? But who cares about your opinion anyway.

"Good morning."

I greeted my mother who was still talking about the fact that I was late and the usual talk, she urged me to get up quickly and this is what I did two years ago I finished my studies and after a full year of searching for a job I found a good job within a respectable company and here I am If I start to enter this world after I was just a student for many years well I am technically still in my first year of being hired so, of course, of course, I don't want to be late after showering and doing my daily routine I put on my clothes and tried to match them with the maximum sense of fashion I could come up with then I went down I went downstairs and had lunch with my father. My relationship with him was more than wonderful, and how could it not be?

His eldest son finished his studies, and here he is now with his job and started building his own life

In his eyes, he didn't ask for more, so the atmosphere was fun at the lunch table, and it didn't take long before my brothers, who were still negotiating their studies, joined us after harassing them for a bit. We got into the car. With my father drives each one of us, of course, this time I rode with my two brothers from the back because my mother wanted to accompany us I did not hate this family atmosphere because I was longing for it after all those years that I spent studying far away Honestly I can move to live alone in any When I want and I can, but who the hell would want to? Definitely not me. I want to enjoy these days with them as long as I can.

"I love my life."

I murmured under my nose, I mean a happy family, a good job, and great friends I had memories with for many years, I wasn't super beautiful but I wasn't ugly what the f*ck did I want more than this? If I lived again, I would want to live the same life. This was the ceiling of my humble ambition. I sighed and pulled my laptop out of my bag and decided to take a quick look at what I wrote yesterday.

Of course, this is why my younger brother, who was sitting next to me, immediately stuck his head in front of me.

"Did you write a new chapter? What happened? Did the hero win? Did he use such an attack?"

I sighed inwardly Here we are, I smiled at my younger brother while answering his questions, this is the whole situation wasn't happening for the first time I saw my father look in the rearview mirror while he smiled, your brother likes your novel, of course, he does, or he wouldn't have bombarded me with all these questions about it the more I wrote I laughed lightly in response to my dad.

"Well, I'm glad my biggest fan is my little brother."

I gently pat him on the head before returning.

My attention was on the novel that appeared on my computer screen.

"Survival land"

This is a novel that I started writing during my university days It can be said that it was a hobby that I became addicted to because I did not find a place to empty my imagination and wild thoughts.

I enjoyed writing this novel, and the readers loved it as well, although it was a typical novel about demons invading the human world, it was well-received thanks to its portrayal of the hero's life inside an academy to teach magic and fencing and the interesting relationships between the main characters, demons, magic, school life, and attractive characters.

Who wouldn't like this? I mean, even I, too, enjoyed writing it.

But it remains just a hobby and that explains why it took me so long to not finish it I mean I started it many years ago and readers have always been annoyed that it took me so long to publish one chapter, I have to admit that this novel made me some good money but as I said it will remain just a hobby, I don't want my life to depend on writing.

After all, my words are not endless, but greedy readers always ask for more.

'Well, you want more, and I say go to hell'

This novel will end one day, but not now.

With these thoughts, I turned off the computer. But at that moment the sights I was seeing a short while ago from the car window disappeared and were replaced by the light of sight that made me startle involuntarily before everything disappeared from the corner of my view, I was blinded, I couldn't even breathe.

properly or take a good look at my family before everything turns black.

when you think everything is going well, life will point its middle finger at you.