The Chronos Registry : Rewinding Destiny

The world of Aetheria is ruled by the Birthright. You are either a mage, a divine warrior, or a genius. If you are none of the above, you are a Zero-Rank: worthless, powerless, and destined to serve. Kaelen Nox is the perfect Zero-Rank. Mocked and abused at the elite Chronos Academy, he possesses only a single, humiliating Innate Skill: Minor Spatial Shift, which lets him move an object one centimeter once per hour. But when a brutal attack pushes him to the brink of death, the System that governs all of Aetheria fails in his body. In its place, a lifetime of terrifying knowledge is uploaded into his mind. Kaelen is not a hero from the past; he is a powerless researcher from the future who survived the final, devastating apocalypse—the Temporal Cascade—and meticulously logged every secret, weakness, and fatal mistake that led to the world's ruin. He is not a hunter. He is an Architect. Now armed with the Chronos Registry—a cheat system of perfect knowledge, Weakness Logs, and Optimal Pathing—Kaelen has a new Rank: Null. He won't waste his time chasing power; he'll exploit the blueprint of destiny. He’ll use his foresight to: Turn his useless one-centimeter shift into a weapon of surgical precision. Recruit the future S-Rank legends currently struggling as nobodies. Systematically dismantle the corrupt noble families and guilds who control the rankings. The problem is, his actions are rewriting history, causing the Temporal Cascade to accelerate. As Kaelen races against a future he knows all too well, he realizes the final enemy isn't a monster or a rival hunter. It's the Prime Entity—the sentient core of the very Ranking System—which views Kaelen as a System Virus that must be deleted before he can free humanity from a destiny it created to save them. Kaelen knows how the world ends. Now, he’ll show them how it begins again.