In Astlan, the city of ashes shrouded in continuous rain and thick coal smoke, human civilization is built on roaring steam cores and precise brass gears. Giant airships cut through the leaden sky, and every corner of the city echoed with the pulse of machinery.
However, beneath this steel forest constructed of reason and order, there lies an older reality. The forgotten old gods sleep in the gaps in the universe. Their dreams penetrate reality and turn into crazy ravings, distorting time and space.
Clockmaker Su Lin, a young man who can "listen" to the echoes of time from the cold machinery, spends his days with gears and hairsprings, trying to use regular "ticking" sounds to resist the increasingly clear crazy whispers in his mind. He believes that everything has its own trajectory, as accurate as clockwork, and so is destiny.
But when a mysterious pocket watch belonging to no known era is delivered to his shop, he is forced to touch the forbidden heart of the gears of destiny. The terrifying illusion that transcended time and space, the evil coordinates pointing outside the world, and the imprint of fate engraved deep in his soul made him understand that he was not a bystander to fate, but the predestined protagonist of this cosmic tragedy.
Just the last cog sacrificed for the awakening of the great unspeakable thing? In order to resist this "woven" ending, Su Lin embarked on a path to pursue the truth. He will travel through the steam-rising upper floors of the city and sneak into the twisted and mutated lower floors of the city; he will get to know mystics who pursue the truth, investigators who harness the ether, and crazy cultists who worship the old gods.
