The Age of Molten Ash

In the wasteland era, the Emberbone Merchant Guild controls everything. If you’re not worth enough alive, they’ll cut you open and see which organs they can sell.

At sixteen, Su Jin found a fragment of Origin Bone in a rubbish heap. From then on, his left eye could see the colors of energy in motion. It wasn’t a power, but a curse. Every time he devoured a kind of Origin Force, the corrosive markings on his arm spread another ring, creeping toward his heart. The stronger he became, the sooner he would die.

His father vanished ten years ago. The only clues are a pocket watch that inexplicably grows hot and an erased serial number: S-09.

A prison break, an auction, the black market of a floating port, and the truth behind the spreading blight. He isn’t fighting to survive. He’s evolving.

He will wield pain as a blade and glimpse the end of the rules. The godslayer will rise from the ashes.