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Void Scholar “I Tried to Learn Magic and Accidentally Broke the World"

EMEL_ODIN
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The Void Scholar — Book One of the Chronicles of the Seven Seals “I Tried to Learn Magic and Accidentally Broke the World” By EMEL ODIN ⸻ He just wanted answers. Instead, he became the question. Cael Adrios was an ordinary university student—until a dying world called out to him. Thrust into a realm where magic isn’t just real, but dangerously unstable, Cael does what he’s always done best: he studies. Obsessed with unlocking the secrets of “Essentia,” the world’s core power, he dives headfirst into forbidden texts, ancient relics, and arcane logic. But magic has a price—and knowledge, an even steeper one. As he unravels the laws of reality, Cael discovers a horrifying truth: his presence is tearing the world apart. The deeper he goes, the more the realm fractures—until time bleeds, space warps, and creatures of the void whisper his name. Now, Cael must choose: keep reaching for power and risk annihilation… or sacrifice everything to save a world that fears what he’s become. A dark, emotional, and thought-provoking isekai tale of ambition, tragedy, and cosmic consequences—The Void Scholar begins a seven-part saga where each hero arrives in a world already trembling. Perfect for fans of Made in Abyss, Jobless Reincarnation, and To Your Eternity—but with its own shattered heart and unforgettable legacy.
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 1 – Prose Draft

He awoke to silence. Not the peaceful kind—but the kind that pressed against the skull, as if the world itself had stopped breathing.

Snow fell in spiraling slow motion. Not flakes—shards, glinting with the colors of shattered glass. Around him, endless plains of cracked ice stretched toward a fractured sky, where auroras pulsed like bleeding wounds.

He did not know where he was. He barely knew who he was.

"Name: …"

He blinked. The thought came like static across the back of his skull. A voice? A system? A memory? He couldn't tell.

His breath fogged. He was shivering, kneeling on uneven crystal ground. No coat. No bag. Just the strange feeling of pressure in his chest—like something slumbered there. Waiting.

Then the pain hit.

A burning pulse in his heart, like liquid fire… and then:

[Essentia Detected. Initialization Incomplete.]

[Void Signature: Anomalous. Unstable.]

He screamed as the world seemed to warp. Ice beneath him folded, refracting light as if it were glass under stress. A black tendril of nothingness snaked across the plain and vanished.

Then it was over. The wind returned. The silence stayed.

He staggered to his feet.

In the distance, towers of jagged ice stood like teeth, and beneath one, something glowed. A soft, violet shimmer—not ice, not snow, but something deeper. Calling.

He began to walk.

Hours passed. Or minutes. Time meant nothing here.

He found the glow nestled in a fractured sigil, part of a broken ruin buried under crystal. His fingers brushed the stone—and the world shifted.

"…do you seek truth?"

The voice wasn't spoken. It was carved into his thoughts. It came from below—from beneath the ruin. Buried deep. Locked.

"Then bleed for it."

Suddenly, the ground cracked. He fell—tumbling through layers of ice and memory—and landed hard in a frozen chamber. Dim lights hummed, ancient. Walls pulsed with symbols that twisted the mind.

And in the center floated a fragment.

Small. Violet. Humming with impossible silence. It was shaped like a heart, cracked and bound in runes that flickered with Voidlight.

[You have found a Relic: Shard of Bound Knowledge]

[Essentia Link Established]

The shard flared—and his vision filled with stars, glyphs, equations not yet invented. He saw a world breaking. A man holding it shut. A choice.

And then nothing.

He collapsed to the floor, the shard hovering beside him.

Somewhere above, the sky fractured a little more.

And far away, something began to watch.