In 2187, on the ruins left by the depletion of traditional energy sources, the Core Energy Alliance monopolizes the world’s crystal veins and card reader technology under the banner of “savior of energy.” A single Grade D energy card is enough to cover half a month’s survival rations for an ordinary person. Even modifying a contact point is a capital offense, branded as “illegal evidence.”
Lu Yan is only an apprentice at an Alliance repair shop, but a half-book of the yellowed Notes on Cardmaking awakens his talent for sensing core energy beneath the emergency lights of an abandoned supermarket. He makes temporary cards from crystal fragments to save refugees, modifies card readers with solder to break through the Alliance’s blockade, and fights his way from the black market to the mines. Step by step, he breaks through the professional divide between cardmakers and card fighters, becoming a new-generation cardmaker who can draw Heaven-Bearing Runes by hand and activate the energy of the earth’s ley lines.
When the Alliance unveils its Grade S “Leyline Bomb,” intent on detonating the global crystal-vein network and establishing an energy dictatorship, he stands at the heart of a shattered crystal mine with an over-Grade-A card drained of its energy. Behind him are hungry children and wounded allies fighting on; before him lie the chief cardmaker’s inescapable trap and weapons capable of destroying the world.
“Core energy belongs to no one. Energy should be free.” His master’s dying words become the sharpest blade in his hand. Heaven-Bearing Runes draw on the power of the ley lines, while a counter-energy card breaks the path to destruction. Watch as this young man uses shattered crystals for ink and the ley lines for paper, painting a ray of freedom to light up an age of darkness and monopolized core energy!
