God is dead.
Not a metaphor, not an allegory. The old gods are dying a slow, irreversible death. The divine pressure they left behind is decreasing year by year, and on the ruins of the divine pressure, the power that has been suppressed for thousands of years is awakening - wizards, monsters, dragons, all forgotten existences will return.
The Empire doesn't know any of this. Knights are still training breathing techniques, lords are still fighting for territory, and prayers in churches are still going on. They thought that only the empire was declining, but they did not know that the entire world was declining.
In the wasteland of the Land of Ashes, Lu Chen will build a tower. On the ruins of the death of the old gods, he will establish a power that spans all realms. He will be the first to wake up while everyone else is sleeping.
