On his seventeenth birthday, Shen Jin transmigrated to a medieval world where sword and sorcery coexisted.
Here, he was called Noah Aswin, the youngest magic apprentice at the Gray Tower, and an orphan with neither father nor mother.
He inherited all the memories from the seventeen years this identity had lived: the poverty-stricken town of Gray Crow, the cold monastery, the strict wizard tower, and the half-elf girl, Alya, who had shared half a loaf of black bread with him since childhood.
She later became a paladin.
And he became a mage.
They reunited amid war and conspiracy, and also took in a lively, ravenous little silver-gray wolf. No one knew that the cub was actually the son of the Starry Sky Wolf King, whose race had long since been wiped out.
Elves, dwarves, orcs, sea folk, goblins, vampires, dragons, the Church, the wizard tower... This world was wondrous and cruel. No race was born noble, and no profession was destined to be righteous.
Noah once thought he only wanted to survive.
Until, before dawn in the Holy City, Alya stood at the center of the seal and smiled at him.
"Noah, don't make me the reason you live."
That day, he completed the seal with his own hands.
And with those same hands, he killed his own dawn.
From then on, the Gray Star rose.
The old order left behind by the paladins, the Church, the kingdoms, the dragons, and the gods would all face judgment anew beneath his spells.
She hoped he would not become a monster.
But this world had only ever taught him how monsters survive.
