A young scholar named Eron stood in the greatest library in the world and made a discovery that changed everything.
He was researching the history of transformation. He had been studying for years, reading every account ever written about how kingdoms had changed. How weak people had become strong. How teaching had spread across the world.
And he had noticed something.
Every single great transformation in the past thousand years had started the same way. With a weak person. With someone who had been rejected or broken or told they could not be something. With someone who had read about another weak person who became strong. And with someone who had chosen to believe.
Eron traced the pattern backward through history.
A thousand years ago, a weak girl read about a weak boy and became st
