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Elias Varen spent seventeen years watching the world die.
He remembers the wars. The ruined cities. The people who vanished. And most of all, he remembers the moment humanity lost control of the System that was supposed to protect it.
Then Elias finds a way back.
He returns to the present carrying seventeen years of knowledge about a future that has not happened yet. He knows who will die. He knows which cities will fall. He knows where the first breaches will appear.
He has one advantage no one else possesses.
He remembers what comes next.
But the moment Elias changes the first event, history begins to move in a direction he does not recognize.
People who were supposed to die survive.
People who were supposed to live disappear.
Dead Zones begin appearing across the world.
The System starts recognizing Elias as something impossible.
And the future he spent seventeen years surviving begins to disappear.
Then Elias discovers the truth.
He was never sent back to save the future.
He is the reason the future changed.
Now, with the System destabilizing, forgotten versions of reality resurfacing, and another intelligence manipulating events from beyond the timeline, Elias must uncover why he was chosen, who else remembers the worlds that were erased, and what the System truly wants from humanity.
Because knowing the future was supposed to be Elias's greatest advantage.
Instead, it may be the thing that destroys everything.
The Returned is the explosive first book in The Reset Protocol, a progression LitRPG series combining time travel, System progression, alternate timelines, hidden history, dangerous abilities, escalating mysteries, and a protagonist whose greatest enemy may be the future he remembers.
The timeline has already changed.
And this time, Elias is the one who changed it.
