The Wrong Kind of Immortality

Orestis Stathis became immortal by accident—and spent a thousand years learning why that was a curse, not a gift. His body could no longer be harmed. It could no longer feel pleasure either. With nothing at stake and nothing to gain, life slowly hollowed out. After centuries of trying to die, he wakes up in his own childhood, years before the immortality ever took hold. He has one goal: live quietly, avoid notice, and die properly this time. It should be simple. He knows more about magic, gods, and broken systems than anyone alive. He has a thousand years of experience hiding in plain sight. The problem is that hiding requires not caring. And somewhere between teaching a merchant's daughter magic she shouldn't be able to learn, quietly preventing an institution from collapsing, and accidentally engineering the outcome of a war between nations—he started caring again. Now he's the most dangerous man on the continent, and the only person who doesn't want to be. ------ Immortality here is not power. It is a failure state. — Description from novelcodex.org