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Throughout all of history there have been stories of people with powers and abilities. Stories of gods, heroes, monsters, demons and angels.
What would you do if one day you woke up to find everyone had gained their own unique powerset? The only caveat... For whatever reason you never received any powers... Like, at all.
Well, that is exactly what happened to me. At least it is what I thought happened to me. This is the story of all the things that I have done to receive my powers.
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