Perfect. Kael Veyrin is now locked as the protagonist.
Below is a fully polished, Webnovel-ready Chapter 0 Prologue, rewritten cleanly with pacing, hook density, and retention in mind. This version is suitable for direct upload.
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I Awakened the System Everyone Else Was Locked Out Of
Chapter 0 – Prologue: Rejected by the World
The sky fractured at exactly midnight.
It wasn't lightning.
It wasn't an explosion.
Thin, luminous cracks spread across the heavens, as if the world itself had been placed under stress—and failed.
Every screen froze.
Phones. Billboards. Classroom projectors.
Then a single line of text appeared everywhere.
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[Global Announcement]
Talent Awakening Ceremony has begun.
All humans aged 15–25 will be evaluated.
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Chaos erupted.
Some screamed.
Some laughed.
Some dropped to their knees and prayed.
Kael Veyrin stood in the center of the school hall, surrounded by hundreds of students, staring at the translucent screen floating in the air. His reflection flickered faintly across its surface.
Names began to appear.
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[A-Rank Talent: Elemental Affinity]
[B-Rank Talent: Enhanced Reflexes]
[S-Rank Talent: Divine Bloodline]
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Cheers exploded across the hall.
Teachers wept openly.
Students shouted, already talking about guilds, ranks, futures.
Heroes were being born in real time.
Then the screen paused.
A new name appeared.
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[Name: Kael Veyrin]
[Talent Evaluation…]
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Kael felt dozens of eyes turn toward him.
Not anticipation.
Curiosity.
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[Result: FAILURE]
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Silence.
Then laughter—not loud, not mocking.
Dismissive.
As if the result had been inevitable.
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[Status: Unqualified]
[Access to System: DENIED]
[Reason: Insufficient Compatibility]
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The screen vanished.
Just like that.
The ceremony continued without him.
No alarms.
No sympathy.
No second glance.
Kael turned and walked away.
No anger burned in his chest.
No despair weighed him down.
Only a quiet realization.
> So this is how the world works now.
Power was permission.
And he had none.
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The moment Kael stepped outside the building, the noise faded.
The wind stilled.
Even the distant cheers felt muted, as if wrapped in invisible glass.
Then—
A sound no one else could hear.
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[Warning.]
Unauthorized existence detected.
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Kael's vision snapped to black.
Pain surged through his skull—sharp, precise, invasive—like something was tearing apart the structure of his mind and inspecting every fragment.
He collapsed to the ground.
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[Re-evaluating…]
[Compatibility check bypassed.]
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The pain intensified.
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[Hidden Variable detected: Observer Class.]
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Kael's breath caught.
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[Unique Condition Met.]
[You were never meant to be a participant.]
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The voice was calm. Mechanical. Absolute.
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[Authority System initializing…]
[Connection to World System: DENIED.]
[Status: Invisible to Global Framework.]
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A final message appeared before consciousness slipped away.
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[Welcome, Administrator Candidate.]
[You are not bound by the rules.]
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Darkness swallowed him whole.
And in that moment, Kael understood.
The world had rejected him.
So he would become something the world could not measure.
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Early Framework (Reader Clarity Without Info-Dump)
The World
Modern Earth
Global Talent Awakening
Power determines status
Guilds and ranks will replace governments
The weak are irrelevant
The Systems
World System: Used by everyone else
Authority System: Kael alone
They do not share data.
They do not recognize each other.
The Difference
Others follow rules
Kael studies and overrides them