In the Armor Realm, bloodline determines everything.
Heavenly Armor makes one royalty, Earth Armor grants nobility, Profound Armor earns a place in the upper city, and Yellow Armor allows one to join the army. Those in the lower city who can awaken only Human Armor are condemned for generations to mine ore, forge armor, and dispose of the corpses of strange beasts, all to support the nobles living behind the high walls.
They built the walls that protect the upper city, yet they themselves have never been sheltered by them.
At sixteen, Lu Chen, an abandoned child from the lower city, took part in the Armor Vein Awakening ceremony.
The result was astonishing: his Armor Vein concentration was zero. No bloodline, no armor, and no chance of ever entering the upper city.
That same day, a beast tide swept in.
The upper city shut its gates, abandoning countless lower-city residents outside the high walls.
When his foster mother fell amid the ruins, Lu Chen heard the voice of armor for the first time.
Broken armor burst from the earth across the city, while the Heavenly Armor of the royal clan bowed its head and trembled.
Only then did the world discover the truth:
The noble bloodline the imperial family took such pride in was merely a glimmer of the radiance he had scattered across the world long ago.
Every suit of armor in this world had come into being because of his arrival.
And the so-called upper city was nowhere near the highest place in the world.
