Your technology will fail… just like your justice."
The stars burned red that night.
Aboard the warship Valis Prime, orbiting the broken Earth of year 9142 NE (New Era), stood Orion Kael, Earth's last Sentinel. Blood soaked through the cracks of his nano-suit, his right arm severed, and his AI companion Sigma flickering to its last byte. The once-majestic skyline of Earth was nothing but a burning skeleton, torn apart by the Celestian Alliance — traitors who betrayed their own species for immortality.
"Sigma… status report," Orion whispered, kneeling beside a shattered console.
"... Life signs: critical. Enemies: Surrounding. Power core: unstable. This is... the end... Orion…"
He smirked. "Not if I rewrite it."
Orion had once believed in peace — until his family was slaughtered in front of him by General Vaelis, commander of the Celestians and once Orion's mentor. Vaelis stole ChronoTech, a forbidden time-anchored chip meant to manipulate timelines — and wiped out Earth's entire past.
Everyone Orion loved was erased… like they never existed.
But Orion, blessed (or cursed) with the Paradox Seed, had one last card. A failed experiment by a forgotten race, the Paradox Seed was a volatile soul-core capable of carrying memories across timelines. It wasn't stable. But neither was Orion anymore.
He limped toward the ChronoVault, the chamber forbidden to all — even him.
As Celestian soldiers burst into the warship's bridge, laser fire crackling, Orion looked back one last time.
"You took everything. My family. My love. My future.
So I'll take what matters most to you…
Your past."
He triggered the seed.
—BOOM—
Reality folded inward.
Galaxies collapsed.
Time unraveled.
Prologue Ends. Reincarnation Begins.
Year: 2025 AD
Location: Earth, Mumbai
Body: Age 17, Name: Aarav Rane
Soul: 9142 NE, Identity: Orion Kael
His eyes opened.
In a school classroom.
Wearing a uniform.
No war. No AI. No scars.
Just... youth.
But the rage remained.
"You're alive… General Vaelis," he whispered under his breath, staring at a student across the classroom.
A face he hadn't seen in eons.
The face of a young man laughing with friends, unaware of the monster he'd become 7000 years later.
"I found you… in this timeline too."