He was not chosen.
He was not summoned.
He simply survived.
Long before the divine shadow came, a nameless man crossed into the Dream Realm and vanished into a forest of ash and fire. What followed was not glory, nor power, but an endless struggle against a world that seemed to reject his very existence.
Traces were left behind. Ruins. Whispers. Mistakes.
History moved on. Fate corrected itself.
And yet… something remained.
This is the story of a long way to nowhere.
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