In this world woven by the "Seven Sources of Rainbow Light" magic, magic is the blade of power and the shackles of fate.
Lin He, a commoner boy, was born with a strange pupil in his left eye, which allowed him to see the strange flow of magic. A "fog of corruption" that engulfed his homeland drew him into the undercurrent of the four magical kingdoms:
——The Jade Federation's mechanical soul crystal, the Silver Holy Court's belief control, the Scarlet Flame Dynasty's blood curse, and the forbidden transaction of the Evernight Islands.
But his gradual awakening of the "Eye of Time" and the bloodline of the ancient royal family revealed an even crueler truth:
Magic is a cage experiment of ancient civilization. The price of redeeming the world is to burn oneself.
He holds a pocket watch that can reverse time, but he is trapped in the closed loop of cause and effect;
He purifies corrupt mountains and rivers, but relies on the charity of nobles;
He resists becoming a vessel for the gods, but erases his own existence with every retracement.
From a scribe in a border town to the "Key to the End" that the four major forces compete for, Lin He's growth is steeped in blood and paradox:
The betrayal and protection of childhood sweetheart Ye Qinglan, the sacrifice and lies of the alien elf Arya, the faith and awakening of the holy saint Su Yingxue;
In the end, he crystallized his whole body into a cocoon in the rift of annihilation of time and space, sealing the origin of magic.
This is an epic about "choice"——
Troubadour songs always speak of a counter-current who refused to become a god.
As a mortal, in the torrent of prophecy, power, love and hate, he wrote the most paradoxical answer:
"True freedom is accepting limitations but never surrendering."
