Shadows and the Price of Night

When a gold coin is enough to buy out humanity, how much soul will you pay for the truth? ** In the Ember Era, where magical disasters have been raging for thousands of years, the eternal night forest swallows up the light, and the scorched wasteland is crawling with mutated creatures. Within the high walls of the human city-state, the powerful are pouring their blood into a lie called "order". Leon Darkcrow, a lone mercenary with a fragment of the abyss embedded in his right eye, follows three iron rules throughout his life: 1. Calculate the price of each drop of blood before accepting an order. 2. Always have one more trump card than your employer 3. Don't believe anyone who claims to save the world In order to break the situation, he was forced to wander between the three major forces: Do you want to be a hero, a pawn, or a table-turner? ** When the Evernight Forest began to spread towards the main city of the Parliament, and when the first city-state collapsed due to the information he conveyed, Leon stood on the ruins of the burning mercenary guild, holding on to the blood-stained rift fragment. At this moment he finally understood: The most expensive things in the world are never golden dragons or holy relics. But what makes those with vested interests tremble—— The courage to overturn the card table! This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.