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Taken by the Universe

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Chapter 1 - "The Silence Before Everything"

When I turned eighteen, everything changed.

Don't expect this to be a story about a beloved hero or a prince awaiting his destiny.

This is my story—

A person who doesn't smile, who waits for no one...

A person who lost everything that makes a human, human.

When I opened my eyes that day, I heard a voice inside me whisper:

> "Welcome to the Library of the World."

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> I didn't understand.

All I could see... was fire.

My home burning.

My mother screaming.

My father trying to pull us out from under the rubble.

My siblings crying.

And me?

I stood in the middle of it all… frozen.

That was the first lesson the "Library of the World" gave me:

> "Knowledge comes after sacrifice."

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> No one remained.

Only charred corpses, and a black sky raining ash.

After days of hunger, silence, and being lost…

The library spoke again from within me:

> "You have access—but at a cost.

With every secret you uncover… you'll lose a part of yourself."

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> My name?

It no longer matters.

People began calling me "the Village Slayer", because I was the only one from my tribe who survived—

And they believed I was the reason everyone else died.

But I…

I wasn't seeking revenge.

I was seeking the truth.

Who killed my family?

Who destroyed my village?

Who decided that we humans even deserve to exist in a world filled with beings older and mightier than us?

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> In this world, there are not only humans.

There are dwarves who dwell beneath the earth,

Fallen angels from the heavens,

Jinn who write history in the sand,

Demons who forge pacts under the table,

And giants who've forgotten even their own names.

And all of them… know about the "Secret of the Universe."

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> And me?

Now I raise the banner of war.

Yes, I will start it…

A war with no mercy, no survivors, no limits.

I will burn cities, crush armies, and bring kingdoms to their knees—

All to reach that secret…

> The secret that took my family.

The secret that armed me with a merciless library.

The secret that will change the face of this universe…

Forever.