[40,000+ words untill locked chapters.]
[Long Chapters]
[Gritty, Dark Story]
[No Harem]
[No Smut]

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'Why' does one strive to attain power?

For what reason does one endure various rigorous trainings, endure the bruises and the batterings, and go ahead to drill their soul and body into perfect shape just to become stronger?

Those ridiculously overpowered, god-like monsters that walked the Earth knew, because they never stopped training.

But I didn't know the reason.

Why, one might ask?

The answer was quite simple, really.

I had no desire to 'know' the reason, and I had no drive to discover the 'why.'

It was because my circumstances gave me no reason to become stronger. And stupidly enough, I greatly believed that I was strong enough to fend for myself.

But boy was I wrong. 

Fate punched me in the guts, and proceeded to give me very, very good reasons to abandon my narrowed mentality and strive to become stronger than I thought I was.

And those reasons multiplied by the day. 

As I ventured out of the dreary slum-like backlands that I grew up in — diving head first into the wider world overrun by monstrous aliens, insanely advanced technology, and humans with supernatural powers — the initial 'why' had grown to become quite... numerous.

So come. Come read my story. 

And see how I crawled out of the depths of the dejected Island called the backlands as a nameless underachiever, and grew to become a.. tether to the entire universe.

Come read how I came to be called... 

The Twilight of the Vast Expanses.

'Why was life always so difficult for me?


At what point did loss become the sole definition of my existence?


And why was it that, even when surrounded by a lot of people, I was always pressed down by this overwhelming feeling that slowly chipped away at my sanity?


—A Star, a Lonely Being of Eternal Brightness, is Born From the Ashes of Devastating Destruction. The Flames thereof are Only Enhancers to its pronouncement. And When the Burning Process is Over, All Beings in the Universe Shall Bear Witness to Its Light. And they Shall Look Upward to…—


Chapter 33: Twilight of the Vast Expanses.


My mind snapped. And a clear feeling traveled through every corner of it, slowly dissolving the blur.


Chapter 33 - Twilight of the Vast Expanses