When the first “Abyss Ripple” tore through the sky, humanity thought it was just another interstellar storm.
That was until alien beasts poured through the rifts, steel cities were reduced to scorched earth, and the nine Celestial Dome Shelters became the final tombstones of civilization. A century later, the survivors huddled beneath energy shields, surrendering the wasteland to monsters and ruins.
Lin Qi was an exile.
Nineteen years ago, branded with the cursed name “Eye of Calamity,” he was cast out beyond the walls of the Seventh Shelter. He made his home among corpses and stellar ash in the wasteland. No one could have guessed that his cursed eyes could see the flow of energy through the Celestial Dome. It was the long-lost “Starmark Perception,” the only key to becoming the legendary “Sovereign of the Celestial Dome.”
All he wanted was to survive. Scavenging, trading, avoiding alien beasts: his life was as wretched as rusted iron in the wasteland.
Until he found a damaged Starmark Stone.
Until Su Li deciphered the encrypted signal from the deep-space fleet.
Until he discovered that the so-called “Starwhisper Church” was deliberately tearing open the rifts, and that the “deep-space fleet” which fled into the sea of stars a century ago was about to return, not to save them, but to purge them.
On a wasteland ravaged by alien beasts, he was the lowliest scavenger.
When a king-level beast shattered the city walls and the fleet’s lances of light pointed toward the earth, he had to become the last shelter beneath the Celestial Dome.
“They call me Calamity.” Lin Qi clenched the Starmark Stone, its spiritual energy blazing in his palm like a fire that could consume the heavens. “But this planet... it calls me its ‘Guardian.’”
The stars were falling. And he was the last person standing between the planet and the abyss.
