As warships and space stations fell from the sky, floods and mushroom clouds rose from the ground.
The old glory of the old humanity turned to ash in a flash, while the new humanity's new corpses froze silently in space.
The survivors watched in terror as a war with no victors unfolded, and promised one another that peace would last forever.
But as knowledge gradually became indistinguishable from the occult, and even technology transformed into magic, could a decaying pact really restrain the beasts in people's hearts?
A thousand years later, when explorers from the stars break into this stagnant world, what will these strangers, who call themselves people from Earth, bring to this stretch of the cosmos?
Judgment, or salvation?