Chapter 18:I Choose To Forge Forward.

Chapter 18:

I Choose to Forge Forward

Errin took a step. The air trembled. The universe held its breath.

He had made his choice.

No more illusions. No more running. He would remember. He would reclaim everything he had been, everything he had lost.

A surge of energy ripped through him, searing like fire and ice. The memories that had once trickled back in fragments now crashed into him like a tidal wave.

He saw it all.

The wars fought beneath burning skies. The celestial realms he had walked as both ruler and exile. The knowledge of worlds beyond counting, the weight of names both spoken and forgotten.

And the valley—

He saw it too, but now with new eyes. It had not been merely a peaceful haven. It had been a test, a place of trial, a cocoon woven around his soul.

The valley had been real. But it had never been meant to last.

The moment he accepted that truth, the world shattered.

The celestial platform dissolved beneath his feet. The stars spun into a vortex of light.

And then—

Stillness.

Errin opened his eyes.

He stood on a mountaintop, the wind howling around him, his body trembling with the power that now coursed through his veins. His mind was clear, his soul awake.

He had left the valley behind.

But he had not lost it.

It lived within him now, a memory that no longer shackled him, but strengthened him. A reminder of who he had been, and who he had chosen to become.

He turned toward the horizon, where distant realms awaited.

And with a quiet breath, he took his first step forward—

Not as an outsider.

Not as someone forgotten.

But as Errin, the one who had chosen to remember.