In the third year of the apocalypse, Fang Cheng awakens an ability that should not exist in this world: the quantification of evil karma.
Dark red karma scores hover above everyone's heads. Greed, violence, indifference: every sin becomes a clear number, laid bare before his eyes.
But this one-of-a-kind ability fails to protect him. His most trusted comrade, Lao Qiu, shoves him into a howling tide of mutated corpses. “You know too much.”
When Fang Cheng opens his eyes again, only seventy-two hours remain before the radioactive dust arrives.
A cold mechanical voice rings in his mind: [Karma Reckoning System bound. You have been selected as the sole Swordbearer. Will you carry out the reckoning or give up?]
In this life, he casts aside all naivety.
He stockpiles supplies, builds a secure fortress, and records the faces of those burdened with evil karma. Everyone who betrayed or hurt him goes on the reckoning list.
The one who unexpectedly enters his sight is Qiao Luo, a female mercenary who kept to herself in his previous life and possessed terrifying combat prowess.
She slaps a bloodstained dagger onto the table. “I heard you can quantify karma. Tell me, what’s my score?”
Fang Cheng looks at the System panel. Most people have karma scores of only three digits, but the number above her head has four, with no end in sight.
“How many sins are you carrying?”
“I’m innocent. I’ve just killed too many people who deserved to die.”
