The Age of Corrosion and Decay

[Not an Overpowered Hero, Brain-Bending, Plot Twists, Infinite Flow, Not for You If You’re Easily Bothered] When the brass buttons at the funeral home grow livor mortis, Yang Sanwen is nailed into the rotting flesh wall of the Guixu. Seven Devourer Beasts gnaw at the remnants of civilization: the arrogant tiger shreds logic, the gluttonous pig chews through time, and the lazy spider’s threads are draining his memories. He breaks the deadlock with three questions, and rusted bones become his monument. When the greedy one’s horns crack open with starlight and the wrathful one’s skeleton blasts through the entropy wall, Yang Sanwen takes his rust scars as a blade and strikes at the ultimate paradox of the Devouring Bones: “You devour all things. Now that you’re being devoured in turn... could that also be the will of the Guixu?” As a new locust tree breaks through the earth, he hears the Spider Woman laugh softly over the sound of a train whistle: “Welcome to your new role as the next era’s cleaner.” (That’s all there is! Just listen quietly to the tides of civilization, cleanse humanity’s sins and desires, and hope that when you return, you’re still young and innocent!)