Gathering Memories in the Gray Mist: Awakening of Ashes

Three hundred years after the nuclear war, on a gray, mist-covered wasteland, memories are being erased by an unseen hand. Every time you kill a monster, someone makes the world forget a name. Jin, an orphan of the wasteland, awakens the bloodline of a Tracer with a black iron pendant left by his mother. He tears open the rifts and ventures into instances set in nuclear-winter ruins and against alien creatures from the stars. He wants no spirit crystals and no source fluid. All he wants is to find old photographs, farewell letters, and gravestones beside every monster's corpse: proof that the forgotten once existed. His house arrest in Black Iron City, the truth of the Recollection Hall, his mother's projection in the depths of the memory abyss. At last, Jin sees clearly: his mother was the first person to awaken three hundred years ago, and the world erased her. Jin's Blade, Memory Devourer, Sea of Memories, Blade of Tracing: when forgetting itself opens its arms to him, he chooses to turn against time and bring back every memory that was erased. “Every time you kill a monster, someone makes you forget a name.” This time, it's my turn to remember you. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.