The Darkest Hour

The Great Collapse of Year One destroyed the thriving human civilization overnight. Cities turned into man-eating monsters. A thousand-meter-tall tree of flesh and blood in the Capital City left the surviving armies helpless. Monsters in the ocean, often kilometers in size, could attack steel warships from beyond the continental shelf. Mind-breaking interference and whispers limited pilots to no more than thirty-five minutes in the air. Nuclear weapons were not humanity's last hope: the nuclear blast at Wujiang failed to kill the city. In short, humanity had fallen from its place as the ruler at the top of the food chain. But even so, in the darkest hour, there should still be a ray of light to cut through the dawn,