Shiv Kumar was no hero. He was just another face in the crowd, lost in the ceaseless flow of life in the sprawling city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. By day, he was an IT professional, a master of code and logic, but a slave to routine. His life was a predictable cycle—wake up, commute, work, return home, repeat. Yet beneath this monotonous existence, Shiv nursed a secret longing for something more. The adventure novels he devoured in his spare time spoke to him of worlds beyond his reach, of destinies shaped by strength and will, and deep within, a part of him yearned for such a life.But fate is a strange and unpredictable force. It neither grants wishes as one expects nor answers prayers in the form they are asked. Shiv's life, so carefully maintained and meticulously ordered, came crashing down one evening as he walked home from work. The setting sun had cast the city in a warm, golden light, and for a moment, Shiv had felt at peace, unaware of the scaffold that creaked ominously above him.In an instant, the world exploded into chaos. Metal groaned, concrete shattered, and Shiv found himself engulfed in a rain of debris. Pain, sharp and blinding, was his last sensation, followed by a cold, suffocating darkness. And then—nothing.Or so it seemed.Somewhere in the void, Shiv's consciousness stirred. There was no body, no pain—only a profound, all-encompassing stillness. His thoughts, once sharp and clear, were now muddled, drifting through a formless abyss. He was suspended between life and death, his soul caught in a liminal space, adrift in an endless sea of darkness.But the darkness was not empty. A force, ancient and powerful, reached out to him, pulling him towards something distant and mysterious. Shiv's thoughts became a whirlwind as the force grew stronger, a vortex of energy that seemed to tear through the fabric of reality itself. His senses, dulled by the void, suddenly exploded with sensation as he was drawn into a new world—a world far removed from the one he had known..