"Whispers of Ash, Sealing the Abyss" | My Tier 0 status made every otherworldly beast kneel | No do-gooder heroine · ruthless and decisive · no harem
A hundred years ago, the sky split open and dimensional rifts swallowed the globe. Otherworldly beasts poured through, modern weapons failed, and humanity teetered on the brink of extinction. In that desperate hour, everyone awakened supernatural powers, and civilization was rebuilt through blood and fire.
Shen Jin was the most inexplicable mystery of that catastrophe: no parents, no record of a bloodline, and an appearance out of nowhere at the very heart of an ancient ruin. A single murmur from the infant in his swaddling clothes made every beast vanish in an instant. The Federation raised him in utmost secrecy for sixteen years, then sent him to Nanzhou Academy of Supernatural Powers. His file bore four glaring words: Tier 0.
All he wanted was to live quietly.
There was the red cord from his childhood sweetheart, Su Wanning. There was Zhao Beiwang's racket as he snatched lunch boxes, and Song Zhiwei's big hand smacking the back of his neck. Uncle He in the cafeteria kitchen saved soup for him, and Mother Lin at the children's home remembered every child's birthday. For the first time, he thought it might be nice to be a nobody.
But the rifts were expanding. A Ring 3 King Beast awakened. A Ring 4 Ancient Beast cast the shadow of conceptual corruption. A Ring 5 Phantom Beast crushed his companions into crystals of ice against the wall. A Ring 6 Final Beast opened its eyes beneath the mountains.
One by one, they were gone, without a trace.
Su Wanning said, “The cord you made looks better than mine.”
Those were her last words.
Song Zhiwei called, “Catch!” Zhao Beiwang waved and said, “Don't come over!” When Jiang Cha was lucid, she begged him, “Kill me.” The last page of Xu Tang's notebook held three words: “Dig downward.”
Everyone was gone. He wove all their names into a red cord and tied it around his wrist.
Then he walked into the depths of the rift.
