Introduction: Book 1 Complete.[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]After breaking free from being mind controlled at the age of 60, Radiant Shadow has been on the run and hiding from the government that coveted his abilities and feared his potential power. After a little over a century of forced exile, Radiant finally completed his magnum opus; a time machine that would send him back to when he first entered into this world full of hope and possibilities.Unfortunately, his soul originally entered into his body when he was five years old, and at that point in time had already been imprisoned by the government. However, Radiant will do the best with what he has and gain the power necessary to live his life as a free man.What to expect:The Graphic Violence and Sensitive Content tags are more for caution's sake. To give you a reference point, I don't swear in my stories, so if you're an adult there shouldn't be any problems reading this.Weak to strong over time, but not that quicklyNon-System progression and elements, as well as System progression and elementsAn MC who isn鈥檛 all powerful but has big plansThis is my first story I鈥檓 posting, so I hope you go easy on me.This project all started when I was finished reading another great story and I had the thought, if I was some random person who was reincarnated into this world would I want to live in it? After I had this thought, I ultimately decided that most of the worlds of the stories I read I would absolutely not want to be reincarnated into. Thus I decided to begin my own world building project which eventually turned into this story....