Eternal Crown: Shadow Awakens

In the last embers of the Bronze Age, fate chose an apprentice blacksmith. Karl Anvil, an unknown hammersmith boy in Valyria, awakened the power of Starfire due to an accident. The burning brand on his left arm revealed his identity as the orphan of the last royal family, and made him the target of the Shadow Council. In this continent torn apart by elemental rifts, the barriers of race and faith have long been crumbling. Human city-states fell into internal strife; elves prophecies warned that stars would fall, and the depletion of Silver Moon Lake opened rifts in faith; the dwarves were on the verge of extinction because of the lost runes, and the orcs were reduced to bloodthirsty puppets under the corruption of Chaos. What's even more terrifying is that the curse of the eternal crown has quietly awakened. This treasure, forged from the skull of the Creator God, appears once every three thousand years. If it cannot be destroyed, it will swallow the world's energy and restart the cycle of destruction. Carr holds the warhammer in his hand and struggles forward amid betrayal and sacrifice. His weapon evolved from the Apprentice's Hammer to the Anvil of Eternity, and with every increase in strength, the stone curse eroded every inch of his body. The bond with the elf ranger Irene, the blood contract with the dragon, and the half-soul alliance with the shadow leopard allow him to shoulder a salvation mission that transcends races. However, when the Alliance of Light questioned his use of witchcraft and the Shadow Council coveted his bloodline, Karl had to make a choice amid the collapse of his faith: should he wear the crown and become a new god, or should he pay the price of annihilation and smash the shackles of three thousand years of reincarnation? This is a story about power, sacrifice and breaking fate. Technology and magic collide, racial isolation and the crisis of annihilation coexist. Only the humblest blacksmith can use his soul as an anvil to forge hope.