This is not a story about becoming powerful. It is about a man who was already at the peak— and still failed. In his first life, power gave him control. In this one… control may not be enough. The world he has been reborn into does not fear strength. It tests something far more danger...

Before the world ended, Zera was already locked away. Patient Z999. Cell 50. No surname. No family. No remorse. For ten years, the underground hospital kept him buried beneath rules, cameras, and reinforced doors. Then World War III begins. The pandemic spreads. Nuclear fire stains Americ...

One year before the apocalypse, I returned with the inventory list of everyone who betrayed me. They killed my family for seven days of food. Now I have one year to prepare. Bunker? Already planned. Weapons? Already ordered. Water? Already secured. Traitors? Already marked. When the world ...