I WAS Humanity's HOPE Novel

Decades after being betrayed and left for dead, the celebrated hero Astralis, known as Richard Blackwood, awakens to find his existence erased and his legacy stolen by an imposter. Forced to operate in secret as a novice within the Mage Guild, Richard confronts a world that has moved on without him. His comfortable existence, once secured through his heroism, is gone. A gnawing concern arises as he realizes his own sister has surpassed his former strength, prompting a terrifying question: how much have the traitors who abandoned him grown in power during his supposed death? Now at the bottom, his past triumphs fading, Richard Blackwood, formerly humanity's beacon, refuses to remain defeated. Fueled by profound anger and a desperate need for retribution, he sets out to reclaim what was lost.