Twenty-four hours before the global Awakening erupted, Ye Chen's consciousness forcibly anchored itself back in this doomed world from the end of time.
He had seen the endings of countless branches of time and space: humanity's defenses collapsing completely, alien races crushing the Earth, the temporal crystal wall shattering, and all life vanishing in the currents of time and space.
In every timeline, he met the same end: assimilated by the origin of time and space, then utterly erased.
His mind was filled with countless contradictory blood-written futures;
before his eyes lay certain death: Awakening in twenty-four hours meant dying;
in his ears came the roars of countless versions of himself from the cracks in time.
They were echoes from discarded branches of time and space, futures in which he should have died. Coveting the right to exist as the anchor of his primary timeline, they sought to replace him and become the only reality.
While others celebrated their Awakening, he searched the river of time for a way to survive;
while others seized resources to level up, he used paradoxes to break established rules;
while others fought off the alien invasion, he battled the closed loop of destiny he had written for himself.
He could stop time in an entire city, rewind the outcome of a war, steal his enemies' lifespans, and retrieve the souls of fallen warriors from the currents of time and space, yet he could never escape time's prison.
Only when he stood before the temporal crystal wall did he finally see the ultimate truth behind the global Awakening:
He was not a savior chosen by fate. He was fate itself.
All his struggles, all his efforts, were simply meant to make himself go from "nonexistent" to "existent."
"This time, I will either take complete control of time and space, or vanish forever into the river of time."
