Before the System existed, there was Varek. Ten thousand years ago, he was the Ashen God — the being who stood between the living world and total obliteration. No army at his back. No divine favor. Just will, and power so vast it cracked the sky when he finally spent the last of it to seal the darkness away. Nobody remembered. Nobody built a shrine. The world moved on. He simply... stopped. Then he woke up. Sixteen years old. A body like a twig. Inside a world he recognizes — not because he built it, but because he read it. In his previous life, a forgettable modern man named Han Jisu read every chapter of Astraborne: Legacy of the Chosen on his phone before a hospital ceiling became the last thing he ever saw. He knows this world's secrets. Its hidden dungeons. Its buried relics. The lies the System tells the people who trust it. And he knows how the story ends. Doan Solace — the golden boy, the System's chosen, the hero every faction is betting on — saves the world, ascends to godhood, and then tears the seal open with his own hands. Drunk on power. Convinced he's above consequence. Varek sealed that darkness once already. He isn't doing it again. He starts at Level 1. No class. No skills the System will acknowledge. His stats look like a farmer's son who's never held a weapon. But the System keeps generating one error message it cannot explain: [!! ANOMALY DETECTED — Soul Origin: TIER ??? — Data Corrupted] [Skill generated: DRAIN ECHO — Source: UNKNOWN] [Classification: IMPOSSIBLE] Because while was built to measure power — It was never designed to measure something that existed before it did.