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Louis slowly opened his eyes.
"Ah!"
He gasped in disbelief and coughed, his gaze darting around the room. He was somewhere familiar.
"What?"
He was back home. This was his room.
And it was no dream. He tested his powers at once. They were weaker than before, but they remained.
"I have lost it… the Heart of Time."
He gasped again, coughed, and drank some water. With a sigh, he realized his throat had simply been dry.
"The source of my regression is gone. I can no longer regress if I die. But where am I? Is this really… my home?"
Louis walked to the glass window and looked out at the Kingdom of Frostbane. Vast grasslands now stretched where wasteland had once dominated. A bright blue sky arched overhead, and the sun shone warmly.
Floating islands drifted in the distance, and the city had grown three times larger.
"Is this… It is not the Realm. It is Earth!"
