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The night was colder than usual.
Renard Astralis walked down the silent road, hands buried in his pockets, thinking about how strangely empty life felt. The world around him was loud—cars, people, neon lights—but inside his mind, everything was quiet.
Too quiet.
"Another pointless day," he muttered.
He crossed the street.
A sudden horn.
Blinding lights.
A violent crash.
His body flew.
Everything went black.
No sound.
No breath.
No heartbeat.
Just… darkness.
But instead of fading away, a whisper rose from the void.
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🌑 THE WHISPER
A cold voice curled around his consciousness.
"Renard Astralis…"
His eyes snapped open—or at least he thought they did, because he saw nothing but shadows swirling like smoke.
"Your death is accepted."
The voice was neither male nor female, neither human nor spirit.
It felt ancient—older than stars.
"Your rebirth begins now."
Renard tried to move. He couldn't.
"Who are you?" he asked, but the question dissolved into the void.
The voice responded—
"You are the Origin.
You are the first light hidden inside darkness."
Before he could understand what that meant, the darkness shattered like glass.
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🌌 REBIRTH IN THE FORGOTTEN WORLD
Renard sucked in a breath.
He was lying on cold stone.
Above him stretched a sky he had never seen—dark violet with spirals of glowing nebulae.
Floating islands drifted slowly in the distance.
A black sun hung above everything, radiating shadows instead of light.
He sat up slowly.
"This… isn't Earth."
The air felt heavy, charged with unknown energy.
Strange runes glowed faintly on the ground beneath him—symbols rotating in a perfect circle, as if alive.
Renard touched one.
Instantly, the sigil beneath his skin responded—
a burning shape appeared on his chest, glowing through his shirt.
He gasped.
Lines of light twisted across his skin, forming an ancient seal.
The Primordial Mark.
He didn't know how he knew that name—
but the knowledge was simply there, like an instinct.
"What… am I?" Renard whispered.
The sky rumbled.
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🌑 THE ECHO OF THE FIRST GOD
A distant temple rose from the mist—a massive structure carved from obsidian and gold.
Towers reached toward the sky like spears.
Statues of a man with a blazing halo lined the pathway.
Renard stared at it.
He didn't understand why, but the sight filled him with an icy discomfort.
Danger.
A threat that was searching for him.
As if something inside that temple knew—
The Origin has awakened.
The wind carried another whisper, different from the first.
"The First God watches."
Renard clenched his fists.
"First God? Then… what am I?"
The mark on his chest pulsed once—
and knowledge slammed into his mind like lightning.
He saw visions:
A world being born from light and shadow.
A man standing at its center—Aurelius, crowned in gold.
People worshipping him as The First God.
And deep beneath everything…
a hidden force older than Aurelius.
A power sealed away.
That power…
was Renard himself.
The truth struck him with terrifying clarity:
Aurelius wasn't the true first.
Renard was.
The Origin.
The beginning before the beginning.
His death on Earth wasn't an accident.
It was a summons.
A return.
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🌑 THE WORLD THAT WANTS HIM DEAD
The sky darkened.
The black sun blinked, as if reacting to Renard's awakening.
Far away, in the golden temple, someone opened their eyes.
A man with long white hair, golden armor, and a crooked smile.
Aurelius.
The world's self-proclaimed First God.
He whispered:
"The Origin has awakened…
So the shadow I stole has come back to reclaim itself."
His voice turned cold.
"Send the Watchers.
Erase him before he remembers."
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🌑 THE FIRST STEP
Renard didn't know about the danger approaching.
He only felt a strange pull in his chest, guiding him forward.
He took a single step.
The ground beneath him lit up—
runes spiraling outward, responding to his existence.
A wind rose, circling him like a living creature.
"This world…" he whispered, looking up at the dark sky.
"…is afraid of me."
And with that, the first true God of Eldranox walked forward,
awakening the power that the false god feared more than anything.
The war between Origin and Impostor
had officially begun.
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