After transmigrating into the most despised noble bastard in the Augustus Empire, Karl had barely opened his eyes before his biological father and stepmother joined forces to scheme against him, stripping him of all inheritance rights and shipping him straight to Nightfall, a domain completely swallowed by Cthulhu’s black fog. All year round, the fog gnaws at body and soul, and mutated monsters rampage everywhere. Ruins and bones litter the land. It is an infamous death trap, and everyone expects him to be torn apart by monsters and die unnoticed in the wasteland.
At death’s door, he awakened the Eye of the Chosen against all odds. It could purify the black fog and slay mutated monsters, as well as reveal which women had the potential to become Chosen! The aloof, lonely empress who holds the imperial family together; the cool, proud elven sharpshooter; the fierce and domineering dragon-blooded princess; the mysterious, uncanny saintess of the undead: every one of them is a peerless Chosen, one in a million.
To the outside world, he is a ruthless lord of a doomed domain, sweeping through the black fog and carving out territory with an iron fist. He gathers refugees, builds a mighty domain, crushes his enemies, and stands against the Church, rising from an abandoned pawn to become the fearsome King in the Mist. In private, he kneels before the empress, his gaze burning with obsession, and keeps repeating, “Your Majesty, I am utterly loyal.” In truth, he seizes power, clears every obstacle, and protects her, laying the whole world at her feet so he can claim all her attention for himself. His loyalty is madness, his love an obsession. His triumphant rise sets the world ablaze. He wants the world, and he wants Her Majesty the Empress even more!
