Why is Background Character the Strongest Now?

Shivam was an ordinary man—a government employee who had clawed his way out of orphan's hell to find stability, only to lose himself in fantasy. Anime, web novels, light novels consumed him, but one series held his obsession: Transmigrated as a Third-Rate Villain. The plot burned, the fights shattered comprehension, the worldbuilding transcended mortality. Two heroes defined it all—Marcus Ardent and Daelen Vorcrest, humanity's last guardians—until the final chapter annihilated them both. The author erased an entire continent with indifference, and Shivam's rage became a curse.

He fell asleep cursing the author's name.

He woke as Ezra Celestrian.

The side character everyone forgot. The man destined for early death. Except Ezra carried a terrible secret: he was never weak. The author had killed him precisely because he was the strongest—a threat to the story's power scaling, silenced before his potential could spiral beyond control.

Now Shivam inherited that strength.

Now the narrative belonged to no one but him.

"Why do these noble mannerisms haunt me?"

"What is this 'Divine Enemy' trait tearing through my being?"

The world mourns Ezra's corpse. Shivam refuses the grave.

"You dragged me into your shattered world. You murdered the characters I loved. You incinerated everything beautiful for a shock twist."

"I'll remake what you destroyed. I'll rewrite every broken chapter."

"And when I find you, Author—I will make you swallow that ending."