A tide of corrosive black mist swept across the globe. Dimensional rifts burst open one after another, and high-level corrosive beasts rode the waves toward them. The Boundary Guardians fought until they were utterly spent, yet could barely hold them back.
Then Lin Ye appeared before a rift, holding two shoe-repair awls polished to a shine.
While others relied on mechs or threw their lives away to fight the corrosive beasts, his fingers danced, needle and thread in hand:
“Don’t rush. Let me stitch the rift up a bit first and finish the edge.”
While others spent ten years stuck at a bottleneck, unable to advance a single step, he shut himself away for three months with his awls and broke through three ranks in a row. At just twenty-one, he reached the threshold of the Lampbearer realm and went toe-to-toe with a half-step King-class progenitor in the middle of battle.
From a shoe repairman nobody paid attention to, to the “Captain Lin” revered across the internet.
Armed with two awls, he braved the Northwest Ruins to seize a World Core, ventured into the Sea of Primordial Corrosion to save his parents, and explored the Abyssal Seal to solve a twenty-year-old case.
The enemy camp’s second-in-command was his own aunt, both foe and friend. His grandfather, trapped in the Abyss for twenty years, was still alive, his soul sealed away. The progenitor of the Corrosion Cult turned out to be his grandfather’s fellow disciple, who had become his enemy over a single misguided decision.
Seven ancient World Cores lay scattered across the world, and the original body of the Corrosion was about to awaken.
Some said the heavens were about to collapse and humanity could no longer hold the line.
Lin Ye clenched the shoe-repair awl in his hand and stood before the largest rift.
“So what if the sky breaks?”
“Stitch by stitch, I can patch it back together.”
This is a pretty interesting book. The world-building and setting are quite novel and fun. 🤭 A potential dark horse!!!