In a world divided by fate, three races coexist in a fragile balance: the Titans, who live for ten thousand years; the Elves, the graceful architects of magic; and Humans, who live barely eighty years but possess vast, untapped reserves of Mana—locked away by an ancient seal.
Aeter, a young High Titan, commits the ultimate sin: he falls in love with his mentor, an Elf named Mia. When a tragic encounter with a Demon Lord leaves Mia on the brink of death, Aeter is forced to make a desperate choice.
He shatters the Forbidden Crystal to grant his one wish: To bring her back.
But magic always demands a price. Aeter is granted immortality, but at the cost of becoming the very darkness he fought against. Now, as centuries turn into millennia, Aeter watches from the shadows as empires fall and technology rises. He is the guardian of a secret that could destroy the world: The truth about why human lives were shortened, and the dark reality of his own existence.
"I saved her life, but I locked myself in a cage of eternity. And now, the cage is starting to break."
Excerpt from Chapter 1: The Shattered Silence
The air in the Silver Forest was thick with the scent of ozone and drying blood. Aeter knelt, his massive Titan frame trembling as he held Mia's fragile body. To him, she looked like a broken porcelain doll, her elven ears stained with the crimson of a battle they weren't supposed to lose.
"Don't... Aeter," she whispered, her voice a fading echo. "Time is a gift because it ends. Don't try to stop it."
But Aeter wasn't listening. His eyes were fixed on the glowing shards of the Demon Lord's core lying nearby. He didn't want a gift. He wanted her.
"If time is the enemy," Aeter growled, his voice vibrating with a power that began to turn the sky black, "then I will step outside of time itself."
As he crushed the crystal in his palm, the seal on his soul ripped open. He didn't just save her; he rewrote the laws of the universe. And in that moment, the first Demon Lord was born—not from hate, but from a love that refused to die.