When the familiar sky tears apart, an unfamiliar hell descends.
The peaceful world of reality is pierced by an incomprehensible terror. Twisted dimensional rifts quietly sprout across the globe. The laws of physics collapse, bizarre alien geometry spreads through cities, and never-before-seen mutants born of rotting flesh, known as “Plagueforms,” rampage through the streets, spreading death and mutation like a virus. Human civilization teeters on the brink amid desperate screams.
Chen Mo, once immersed in the virtual battlefields of Warframe, has now become the most vulnerable prey of this real-life nightmare, and its most unexpected “creation.”
An outbreak at a core rift drags him to the edge of the abyss. It brings with it a soul-rending transformation and maddening hallucinations. His body begins to respond to, crave, and even try to control the “Void” fragments flowing from the rift, fragments imbued with destructive energy! They writhe, reassemble, and fall apart between his bones and flesh like living armor, each attempt bringing searing, bone-deep pain.
Even more terrifying is the voice, a broken, static-filled “Lotus” voice.
It whispers in his mind, giving chaotic, contradictory directions: avoid the deadly “light,” and search for the mysterious “beacon indexes” scattered among the ruins and dangers.
Is this voice the apocalypse’s last chance at salvation, or a sweet poison leading them toward an even greater destruction?
Amid the flesh-and-steel graveyard of a collapsing world,
Chen Mo meets other “Tenno prototypes,” fellow “Awakened” afflicted with the same mutations and struggling to survive.
They have different abilities and conflicting beliefs, forming alliances and growing suspicious of one another amid the chaos.
