Starfall Era: Su Tian the Immortal
The glare of the nuclear blast had barely faded from his retinas when Su Tian opened his eyes in an experimental pod three hundred years in the future.
“Subject 734, you are a reborn experimental subject.” The lab-coated man’s words were like needles dipped in poison, piercing every memory Su Tian had of the apocalypse, his comrades, and their sacrifice.
When he smashed his way out of the Federation laboratory’s cage and stood beneath the neon lights of a floating city, energy dagger in hand, he finally understood that “rebirth” only meant a new battlefield. Rusting mech wrecks concealed out-of-control war machines; in the shadows of the glittering city, his own kind had become mutant beasts. And the scar on his chest, resonating with the Star Core, was burning as it revealed an even crueller truth: the apocalypse from three hundred years ago had never ended.
From dismantling mechs single-handedly in the Rust Belt to striking bloody deals with the resistance on the black market, Su Tian carved a path through the Federation’s guns and interstellar conspiracies, clutching a Star Core sample capable of incinerating stars. When Dr. Chen said, “Your genes can save humanity,” Su Tian was plunging his dagger into an enemy’s throat.
“I’ve lived three times, and it wasn’t to become a savior.”
“It was to make every bastard who treats people like experimental subjects feel what it’s like to burn in a nuclear blast.”
Later, the whole galaxy passed the story around: the immortal who crawled out of the ashes held a Star Core in his left hand and an enemy’s skull in his right, with the Federation’s flag burning behind him. And on the day he crushed the Star Gate beneath his feet, countless mutant beasts howled in agony below him.
It turned out that three hundred years of struggle had already forged him into something more terrifying than the apocalypse itself.
