Apocalyptic sandstorms tear civilization apart, and steel becomes a rust-eaten skeleton!
Clutching the bronze fragment his parents left behind, he holds up the last Weapons City.
The Purification Bureau’s mechs crush the stronghold walls, splattering blood across the battlements.
But the truth is this: the “Rust Calamity” is actually a human extermination experiment!
“Daddy, the bronze hurts...”
His daughter’s sobs burst from the chip, and the blood-red truth pierces his nerves!
As he strikes down a rusted behemoth, an ancient god’s eye appears in the clouds. Its roar shatters heaven and earth:
“Human civilization is nothing but insects in my jar!”
The bronze gate in the Upside-Down Alley bursts open, revealing the blinding cold light of “The Prologue of Heavenly Craft”: the seal can only be broken with the blood of a loved one!
He grips his greatsword. Familiar footsteps approach: his father, swallowed by rust three years ago.
Sparks flicker from his half-mechanical skeleton. His rust-stained blade is held out as he smiles and asks:
“Zimo, will you join me in becoming one, or slay the gods?”
He grips the blade and looks into the red glow deep in his father’s mechanical eye. Behind him stand the survivors of the entire city, while the bronze fragment still burns in his palm.
Who, then, should this blade strike?
