
by Praxanode
Aldric was once a count — the mastermind behind a king's rise, a war hero, a man who had everything. Then one failed act of defiance against his own king cost him all of it. Reduced from count to servant, he now spends his days as a butler in a house that isn't his, serving a family that isn't his — carrying a life full of regrets he never got the chance to undo. Then something buried deep inside him awakens. A power that pulls him back in time, again and again, to the moments he regrets most. A second chance. A third. A thousandth, if that's what it takes. But time alone isn't enough. Every regret has to be earned back — through failure, through loss, through choices that cost him more than he expects. This is not a story about second chances handed out for free. It's a story about a man who has to bleed for every single one of his own.
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Rank updated 27 Oct 2026, 13:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 27 Oct 2026, 13:28 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
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