[ENG] Last Reader Standing

Prologue: The Convergence of Stories

At the edge of the imperceptible, nestled between the fibers of time, extends the Eternal Library, a dimension eclipsed by the mist of reality, guardian of every story ever dreamed. In this sanctuary of grandiose arches and majestic silence, the echoes of ancient and modern sagas, tales of yore, and legends yet to come, mingled in an incessant murmur.

Kirin, a city numbed in its peaceful torpor, was light-years away from this place of knowledge. However, fate, capricious in its designs, had drawn a straight line, thin as a hair, connecting the ordinary to the extraordinary. This line crossed the life of Jun Park, a librarian absorbed by his passion for books, who offered his nightly watch to the silent stories.

As secret as it was ancient, an orphaned volume slowly awakened its presence in the depths of the local library, hidden among the shadows and forgetfulness. The "Chronicles of the Immortal" bore no title on its cover, but the mysterious symbols embossed on it vibrated with a millennial expectancy, their arcane secrets ready to unfold.

The space around the book quivered, reality undulated like a dune under an invisible wind. Whispers rose, weaving a call, while the words took shape on the pale paper, revealing a story that strangely intertwined Jun's life with an unfathomable destiny. The thread of his existence, hitherto straight, now knotted around the quest for a mythical object, the Rose of the Winds, the beating heart of the Eternal Library.

That night, as the veil between worlds thinned, Jun's story took an extraordinary turn. In the echo of a solitary heartbeat, the awakening of a literary traveler took shape, and destiny struck its three blows. An odyssey was about to be born, where every word, every sentence would help sketch a path where imagination comes to life.

The lines of his destiny, engraved beyond consciousness, would guide him through challenges and mysteries where the ordinary would meet the incredible. Chosen to reconcile worlds fragmented by shattered stories, he was the one whose courage and will could transmute fiction into reality. A final reader against the approaching silence, a last challenge to decipher the whole.

The prologue ends and gives way to the first chapter of Last Reader Standing, turning Jun's life from dust to legend.