Overnight, the entire laboratory building was torn from its foundations and hurled into a barren wasteland in another world.
We are “fiends from beyond the domain,” lost in this place and sentenced by the Supreme Emperor to a century of imprisonment, left to live or die inside a golden barrier. Resources ran dry, injuries spread, and the order of civilization collapsed completely on the fifth day. Former classmates bared their fangs, while despair gave rise to the most primal evil.
My name is Xu Cheng. Cheng, as in “honest.”
Watching my companions teeter on the brink of death as monsters circled us, I chose to embrace the darkness. The instant my fingertips touched an ancient stone tablet, the whispers of an evil god sounded in the depths of my soul:
“Three lives for a way out; the blood of your own kind is the source of power.”
I paid the price and gained the authority to wield the butcher’s blade in the dim, endless night. Some followed me into the abyss, laying its foundations with slaughter. Others held fast to their principles, trying to carve out a path for humanity in this desperate place.
Outside the barrier lies a savage world where the strong prey on the weak. Within it lies a crossroads between human nature and divinity.
And this is only an insignificant prelude to the coming age of great upheaval.
