Embers of the Flame

[Source-Matter Apocalypse, Crystallized Fate, Costly Powers, Experimental Subjects, Dystopia, A New Era]

After losing his memory for two years, Ryan works as a scavenger in the lower city, fighting mutants for scraps every day.

Then one day, when a tide of crystal cocoons surrounded and slaughtered his teammates, he reached out instinctively--

A high-grade crystal core, supposedly indestructible, crumbled to dust in his palm.

From that moment on, he understood two things:

First, he wasn't ordinary.

Second, every noble, institution, and empire built on crystals could be dismantled by him...

Human beings refined into medicine? Dismantled.

Noble monopolies? Dismantled.

The emperor's lair? Dismantled.

The secret of the rift in the sky that had lasted three thousand years, and the five sleeping dragons, were all within his grasp.

With one stroke of his Disintegration Art, the world was ready for a new ruler.