Dhuble_E

[WSA 2026 Entry] ____ Dustin Walters WAS a coward. He'll be the first to admit it. When life got hard, he ran. When his sister went missing, he ran. When the gang he tried to steal away their 'customers' from caught him mid-negotiation, he tried to run; but this time, he didn't make it. Beaten, broken, and bleeding out in an alley, Dustin whispered his last words: "I hope the world gets destroyed. It caused me a lot of pain." He meant it as... a joke. The universe did not. [Ding! Your dying wish has been granted!] Resurrected moments before the apocalypse he accidentally caused, Dustin's eyes met the sight of... [Ding! Daily Sign-in system initializing...] "A system?" [Ding! 10x Multiplier system initializing...] "Two systems??" [Ding! Leveling System initializing...] "Great. What a shocker. Three systems." Now he's stuck in a monster-infested hellscape of his own making, armed with nothing but a steel pipe, triple cheats, and the burning desire to stop running for once in his miserable life. The world ended because of him, and now he has to survive it while slowly ascending to the position of a 'guardian,' something that the universe itself calls him. ___ Here's a confusing question. How on Earth did someone who had been a 'coward' all his life ascend to become a god? GOALS, GOALS, GOALS: 25 POWER STONES = 2 EXTRA CHAP PER WEEK 50 POWER STONES = 4 EXTRA CHAP PER WEEK 100 POWER STONES = 8 EXTRA CHAP PER WEEK

[40,000+ words untill locked chapters.] [Long Chapters] [Gritty, Dark Story] [No Harem] [No Smut] ____________ 'Why' does one strive to attain power? For what reason does one endure various rigorous trainings, endure the bruises and the batterings, and go ahead to drill their soul and body into perfect shape just to become stronger? Those ridiculously overpowered, god-like monsters that walked the Earth knew, because they never stopped training. But I didn't know the reason. Why, one might ask? The answer was quite simple, really. I had no desire to 'know' the reason, and I had no drive to discover the 'why.' It was because my circumstances gave me no reason to become stronger. And stupidly enough, I greatly believed that I was strong enough to fend for myself. But boy was I wrong. Fate punched me in the guts, and proceeded to give me very, very good reasons to abandon my narrowed mentality and strive to become stronger than I thought I was. And those reasons multiplied by the day. As I ventured out of the dreary slum-like backlands that I grew up in — diving head first into the wider world overrun by monstrous aliens, insanely advanced technology, and humans with supernatural powers — the initial 'why' had grown to become quite... numerous. So come. Come read my story. And see how I crawled out of the depths of the dejected Island called the backlands as a nameless underachiever, and grew to become a.. tether to the entire universe. Come read how I came to be called... The Twilight of the Vast Expanses.

I lived a mediocre life. Trapped in the simulation of everyday mundanity, the 'Matrix' you might call it. The world killed my dreams, hurt my innocence, but I moved on just fine, struggling everyday to keep living. Until it came out of nowhere, without warning: The Apocalypse. I fought to survive. I lived alone in a world where all dead humans turned to undead. But, there was only so little the average human could do against creatures with superhuman strength. So I died. It was the end. Or was it? "From one cage to another." I opened my eyes to a world where normal reasoning was as good as garbage. A world ruled by men with superhuman strength. A medieval world with swords and... No magic. Just swords and weapons. But still, that medieval world was not so medieval. It was a crazy place, a world that I couldn't fully understand. So I decided. I'll live because I lack the resolve to end myself. I'll live because i'm a coward. I'll live because in the end, I'll die of old age anyway. But before I die, I'll figure out the truth and secrets of this world. Just for the sake of it. And what's the best way to see the world in its entirety? Of course, it's to stand at the highest summit. And that's exactly what I'm going to do. So watch me rise.

A life I didn't ask for.. A world I couldn't call my own... I'm Edward Walters. That's what I'll tell anybody if I'm ever asked. Because, that was the name I answered back on Earth. But now, in this new world I reincarnated in— a medieval one of swords and magic— I'm known by many names. The Undisputed Prodigy, The Anomaly of my generation, The Legend Blank, and... Charles Liam Flameworth. But I didn't ask for any of these. I didn't ask for the titles, the power, the wealth, the sufferings, the wars, and the fame. I.. I just wanted to go back home. But fate pinned me to this world, giving me no way back. Untill I decided— if fate doesn't give me a chance.. I'll make one for myself. I'll shatter this so called fate, and I'll go back to my family. This is the story of the Anomaly that defied Fate. The one who Reincarnated as a Genius Mage. ________ Cover art by: Dark72 Join the Discord! https://discord.gg/JSS3gTm6V2