In a republic where memory is currency and alchemy governs all things, Astrid the Immortal is a memory surgeon who longs to end her three-hundred-year long and meaningless life. A self-written "Autobiography" led her to the truth - the "divine corpse" at the core of the Republic's energy was decaying, and she herself was the split memory center of this divine corpse. When the consciousness of God whispers through the rancid gas and lost memories, Astrid must make a choice before civilization collapses: Should she collect the fragments and let the gods wake up and sort everything out, strengthen the seal and continue false prosperity, or risk her own existence and teach this civilization that relies on miracles to learn true equivalence and independence? The ultimate operation on eternal life, memory and sacrifice is about to begin the moment God opens his eyes.
