Aedes Elysiae, a remote frontier village isolated from the world, now lives on only in cryptic legends.
Nameless hero, Khaslana^[1], Chrysos Heir carrying the Coreflame of “Worldbearing,” memorizes the ideals of all worlds, carries the fate of multitudes, and brings the first light of dawn to the new world.
— “But should dawn have never existed, let the fires of rage burn this body to ashes and transform into he blazing sun of tomorrow.”

Aedes Elysiae, the boy's hometown.
The village lived by the rhythm of the sun: working at daybreak, resting at sundown, just like his own life, simple and unadorned.

In a tiny schoolhouse that could barely fit a handful of students, the boy drifted off during a droning history lesson, his thoughts floating away with the wood shavings dancing from his hands.

Stroke by stroke, the figure of a warrior slowly emerged from the block of wood hidden in his desk drawer.
“A mighty greatsword… only a blade like that could match this strength…”
He sharpened the edges of the wood chip in the sunlight.
“Armor scarred by honor, a cloak like wings soaring through the storm.”
“And then…”

“Phainon! If you want to be the strongest warrior… you'd better start paying attention.”
Miss Pythias never gets tired of dragging him back to reality.

The boy preferred the training yard stacked with hay bales far more than school. It was his battlefield — where scarecrows turned into charging soldiers, or wild beasts on the rampage.
When he was not at school, he often spent entire days there with his carved wooden comrades, until the smell of cooking wafted from every household.

Beneath the cool shade of the trees, the exhausted boy could fall asleep right on the grass.
In his broken dreams, he gazed at city-states he had never seen and witnessed grand tales untold.

“Go… become a hero.”

That voice, like the endless waves of wheat in Aedes Elysiae, guided the boy onto the road of adventure.
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≻≻≻ First Computation
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≻≻≻ Assign definition to “NeiKos496”
≻≻≻ Loading Scene [Aedes Elysiae]
≻≻≻ Execute Simulation
Object “NeiKos496” moved along trajectory defined by coordinate set A-F.
Object “NeiKos496” initialized new variable [The Hero Within].
≻≻≻Variable [Black Tide] begins displacement update, executing overwrite command on [Aedes Elysiae]

Facing the young drifter from afar, the weaver and childlike seer would sometimes speak of the Flame-Chase and Chrysos Heirs.
The weaver's sightless eyes seemed to see through his inner turmoil, while the seer's bright innocence gave him a warm sense of home.

“So… the Chrysos Heirs were destined by the heavens?”
The young man asked, gathering his courage.
The weaver shook her head.
“No. It's more like a long, grueling pilgrimage.”

The young man tucked away the wheat-scented memories of his past and joined the holy city's legion, training day and night until difficult swordplay became as natural as breathing.
In a death match that stunned the world, he battled the crown prince of Kremnos for ten days and nights. In each sweeping strike, he wielded his blade as if he'd already offered up his life without hesitation.

Of course, more often than not, the young man greeted the world with humor and ease.
“I just want people to feel comfortable around me,” he would say.
Though his friends often scoffed at that, they knew it was that very spirit that earned the silver-haired youth the trust and respect of commoners and nobles alike in the holy city.

During his years of study at the Grove, even though he had little interest in logic, the young man often triumphed in debates with his sharp wit after poring over books until the pages wore thin.
Though he could not outcompete his teacher's wisdom, deep down he knew — it was the courage to stay true to himself that he still lacked.

Yet when the young man returned from the battlefield and after the physician had bandaged his wounds, there was still a long silence.
“Lord Phainon… do you often wake in the night, or find yourself unable to sleep?”

He didn't mind.
To walk the path that would strike down the gods themselves, he had to carve himself into the shape the world needed him to be.
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≻≻≻ 49th Computation
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≻≻≻ Loading Scene [Okhema]
≻≻≻ Loading Scene [Grove of Epiphany]
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≻≻≻ Load Computational Factors
“HapLotes405”
“SkeMma720”
“EpieiKeia216”
“PoleMos600”
“EleOs252”
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≻≻≻ Initiating Computation
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