Luke Aurelion Vale died once already. When he woke up in a world of magic and monsters, he clung to the one promise the cosmos whispered into his soul: survive AshTale Academy, graduate, and receive a Transcendent System worthy of his struggle. A Golden Finger. A cheat code for his second life. ...

In this world, the Global System does not bestow strength. It records it. Caelan Aurelion Vale transmigrated into this world as a newborn. Fully conscious from birth, yet trapped in an infant’s body, he could only observe, listen, and endure. When the System recognized his existence, it ...