The Shattered One

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In a world ruled by power, where the gifted rise and the weak are forgotten, there are those who never awaken. A boy, one of them, walked unnoticed through life-his existence a shadow in a world that demanded more. He had no power, no significance, no future. The others laughed, the world ignored him, and every attempt to change ended in failure.

Yet, on the day of the test, he walked into the arena like the rest, his hand meeting the Artifact, but there was no light, no explosion of power. Only silence. And for a moment, time itself seemed to pause. No one saw. No one noticed. Only the lingering echo of a name that would come to haunt the shadows: The Shattered One.

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