Four Lives in a World of Thousands

[Time Loop | LitRPG | Progression | Political Intrigue | Rebellion | Weak-to-Strong]   In Aetheria, everyone remembers their past lives. Every hundred years the world resets, and every soul is reborn with its memories intact. This has been happening for over three thousand cycles. The Seven Ancients—families who claim memories stretching back to the first loop—rule everything. With millennia of accumulated knowledge, they reclaim their power within weeks of each reset while everyone else starts from nothing. Kael has four lives under his belt. In a world of immortals, that makes him nobody. But something is waking up inside him. Fragments of a memory that shouldn’t exist—from Cycle Zero, before the loop began. A world where people lived once, loved once, and died for real. And etched into those fragments is a truth the Seven Ancients have been burying for two thousand cycles: The loop is dying. In roughly ninety cycles, the resets will stop. Death will be permanent. And the gods who built their thrones on eternity will be just as mortal as everyone else. They know. They’ve always known. And they will burn the world to keep it secret. Kael has four lifetimes of experience against their three thousand. He has no army, no bloodline, no ancient arts. But he has something none of them do—a reason to care about this life like it’s the only one. Because soon, it will be. They played the long game for three thousand rounds. He’s going to end it in one.