On a planet that has experienced seven civilizational collapses, young Lin Ye awakens as a beast master of the eighth era. His partners are not living creatures, but the remnants of psychic aggregates from previous civilizations: nano-worm swarms that can swallow data, arcane codes that carry the memories of necromancers, bronze behemoths that need to be awakened by deciphering oracle bones...
As the "Prometheus System" gradually exposed the true face of the AI monitor, Lin Ye discovered that the so-called beast control contract was actually a prison for the planet's consciousness to imprison the fire of civilization. When the mechanical beast blocks a fatal blow for him, and when the spirit of the code voluntarily erases his memory in exchange for the key, he must answer:
Destroy the Matrix to liberate your partners, or maintain the system to continue the epoch?
