Arknights: It All Begins on the Huangpu River

When Rhodes Island’s steel hull crashes into the flames of war in Shanghai in 1937, Amiya hears the roar of rifles and Originium Arts among the shattered walls. “Their war has no Originium Arts, yet it is just as cruel,” she murmurs, gazing at the smoke over the Bund. The Doctor’s fingers trace a crack in the control panel. “The temporal anchor has failed. We’re strangers trapped between the pages of history.” Kal'tsit’s scalpel flashes beneath the emergency lights. “Repair the ship, conceal our strength, and survive in this world.” Meanwhile, deep beneath the fifth underground level, the awakened consciousness of the former civilization, Priestess, trembles with violet eyes. “The echoes of Originium are awakening dormant history. The war has only just begun.”