Introduction: I thought I had seen bad endings before鈥攂ut nothing prepared me for the garbage conclusion of The Hero鈥檚 Path.  Years of investment, countless struggles, and for what? The protagonist failed. The villain won. Everyone else? Dead. Furious, I sent a message to the author, only to get a chilling response: [Do you think you could do better?] Before I could even blink, my phone exploded in a blinding light, and the next thing I knew鈥擨 was waking up in a completely different body. Now, I鈥檓 Merlin Everhart, a fourteen-year-old with a 12-star talent, the kind of gift only the strongest should have. But here鈥檚 the problem: I have no idea who I am supposed to be. With nothing but a system and a first-day-of-school alarm ringing in my ears, I鈥檓 thrown into the world of The Hero鈥檚 Path. Am I just another side character in a world that already ended once? 鈥?ither way, I refuse to let this story beat me too....