Western FantasySlow Heat
We came to explore the past, but found the end of civilization.
In the year 128 of the Fifth Era, the Howling Canyon on the Arctic ice sheet has never been so noisy.
For runeologist Erin Visca, this was a dream opportunity - to face the ultimate legacy of the Fourth Age's Campesian civilization. She was proficient in the lost runes, but ignorant of the precise laws of modern alchemy.
The alchemist can freeze walls of ice with his bare hands, but is blind to the warnings etched on the rock walls;
The exploration team is equipped with equipment that can tear mountains apart, but it gradually collapses under the eerie whispers night after night;
But in the eyes of the most senior team members, there are secrets and fears that are deeper than the glacier.
Here, knowledge is the only weapon and a curse that leads to destruction. Every ancient rune that is successfully deciphered is quietly loosening a certain terrifying existence sleeping under the abyss.
Erin realized:
What they were digging was not a relic, but a tomb.
What they awaken is not knowledge, but the judgment of an era of reincarnation.
And the time to pay the price is coming.
