Distortion in the Fog City

Name: Distortion in the Fog City
Author: Bike Qingfeng

by Bike Qingfeng

ongoing Fantasy Mystical Fantasy Male Lead

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76Kwords9chapters

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Ch. 9 — Latin Invitation Letter

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About This Novel

World view In the foggy city of the Victorian era, the thick smoke of the Industrial Revolution obscured the sky, and gas lamps swayed in the eternal night. Beneath this city, whose bones are made of steam and steel, lies an even older truth - the old existence has never left. They sleep deep in the earth's crust, in the abyss of the ocean, and on the other side of the starry sky, and every breath they take distorts the texture of reality. Ancient civilization once used nine sequences and eighty-one steps as weapons to fight against the erosion of the past. Today, these sequences are passed down in the form of anatomical and industrial metaphors: the forging of bones, the weaving of flesh and blood, the grinding of the cranial cavity... Every promotion is the distortion of organs and the unlocking of cognition. The closer you get to the truth, the closer you get to the monster. Ethan Gray, a factory boiler room apprentice and a medical school dropout. He should have spent a mediocre life in soot and rust, until that night - when a dying ancient god was dying, he randomly injected the last fragment of humanity into the body of a mortal. He gained the ability to control distortions: bones can proliferate into weapons, flesh and blood can be reorganized into armor, and the skull cavity echoes with the whispers of the past. But he also gained reverse perception - when the old being stared at him, he could feel that gaze. This meant that he became the only sentinel between the abyss and the human world. He doesn't want to be a hero, but when he discovers that his existence itself is a puzzle - he is a fragment of humanity split from the old days, the sequence system is the weapon of ancient civilizations against the old days, and there are only two choices in the end: becoming a new god, or disappearing completely - he must find a third way.