After failing his tribulation, he fell from the Cultivation Realm into the Star Realm and became an apprentice blacksmith in Graystone Village.
In this world, wizards are heretics, the Church is the hunter, and the Old Gods are reapers who keep all living beings as livestock.
Karen doesn’t believe in fate. He believes only in schemes and leverage.
Starting with a damaged star-core crystal, he refines potions, sets traps to kill his enemies, turns the tables on bandits, and builds a smuggling network.
Caught between the Church and the wizards, he forges a path of order that belongs to him alone.
He isn’t a bleeding heart, and he doesn’t kill indiscriminately or leave debts unpaid.
He is shrewd about profit, fiercely protective of his own, and relentless when it comes to promises left unfulfilled.
When the Old Gods’ scythes fall once more, when the shackles of the planes cap the limits of all living beings, Karen has only one thing to do:
Those who do not become gods are all food. And he will become a reaper.
The Origin of the Star Realm
