This is a brutal era after a cataclysm. Monsters run rampant in the forbidden zones outside the cities, while the Federation's great families have grown stagnant within them. The financial magnates monopolize supplies, hoard goods, and jack up prices, squeezing the last drop of blood and sweat from ordinary people.
Superpowered individuals throw their weight around, while ordinary lives are worth less than grass. Countless people yearn to awaken supernatural powers and defy fate.
But the tide of the times surges ever onward. No one stands at the top forever.
Rivers change course, mountains collapse, and seas turn to fields. You and I: who is destined by Heaven?
Xu Feng has never given the matter a thought. He's just a good-for-nothing who never awakened a supernatural power, a cannon fodder everyone believes won't live past tomorrow.
On an expedition to Cangyuan, his teammates are all slaughtered in a betrayal. Mortally wounded, he dies, only to awaken inside his own dead body: he's gained the top-tier Sequence [Ghost Shadow] and found a ghost mirror that can reveal the truth.
By day, he's a useless nobody everyone can bully.
By night, he's a blade hidden in your shadow. Other people grow stronger through family connections, drugs, or money. He gets stronger through one thing alone: killing.
The more he kills, the more brutally his power grows.
But when he fights his way back into the city, he discovers that those who want him dead are backed by the Enforcement Bureau, the Black Feather Society, and even the Council of Elders.
And what the ghost mirror reveals is a history rewritten fifty years ago, and the name of someone still sleeping: Kaia.
"Stop guessing. I'm not the one chosen by fate. I'm just someone who... hasn't killed enough yet."
