The Seventh Vessel

In 2124, gray mist devours Earth, and humanity huddles beneath cyber domes. On his eighteenth birthday, Lin Ye, an orphan from the Rust Nest District, receives a mysterious bronze box. Twelve pairs of glowing bone spurs burst from his spine: he is the seventh-generation vessel cultivated by Xuantian Technologies, with a key sealed inside him that can open the forbidden zone of the ancient gods. Su Mingyue, an exemplary student who is actually a mechanical prototype assigned to watch him, discovers a symbiotic shackle while carrying out her orders: if Lin Ye dies, her consciousness will be permanently formatted.

Si Tu Nan, president of the Si Tu Group and Lin Ye's maternal uncle, is turning the entire city into a flesh-and-blood server. One hundred thousand infant skulls, each engraved with “VII,” gleam in a mechanical shrine. The Crimson Church slices open its followers' throats and uses their blue blood to draw summoning circles: “Seventh Holy Son, return to the Mother of the Gray Mist!”

When the God-Eater System begins its 777-hour countdown, Lin Ye glimpses the truth through his quantum compound eyes: behind a bronze gate beneath the Antarctic ice, his mother, missing for twenty years, is giving birth, while the umbilical cord at the other end coils around the remains of an ancient god as vast as a star. Devouring the supernaturally gifted accelerates his cybernetic transformation; protecting his humanity means cutting out his heart and bones. In this doomsday gamble, he will offer himself as the sacrifice and knock on the final gate to humanity's survival.

(Cyberpunk Cthulhu × Quantum Buddhist Kingdom × Mechanical Ascension: a dark epic about a god-slayer who ultimately becomes a god)