Break the Baseline. Break the Limits. Once upon a time, a mageblade-in-training lost his best friend. His soul refused to let her go, and his unformed soulspell developed the ability to revert the timeline to the week before her death. It wasn't enough. No matter what he did, said, or tried, her death was set in stone. He was too poor, too weak, too powerless. Some things even perfection cannot accomplish. So he moved forward, over and over again. Saved the world a few times. Refined himself ...

~FIRST PLACE WINNER! Royal Road Community Magazine Contest, January 2023~ Jair Welburne has lived this life more times than he can count. He's learned unknowable magics, defeated the undefeatable... yet in the end, it's still not enough to save him or the people he cares about. So there's only one thing to do: change the baseline. Even if it means reliving some of the worst days of his life again, and again... and again. [Book One completed. Alternate universe rewrite posting HERE, new chapte...