For three hundred years, the floating city had hung above the Black Sea. Everyone believed the Tidal Core was what kept this last city of humanity aloft.
Only Shen Yan knew it had never been a machine holding it up.
It was the lives of the people at the bottom.
Born without a flame, he was sent into a contaminated pipeline as a disposable resource, but among the bones he found the first-generation Tide Lantern. From then on, contaminated energy could be purified, discarded machinery repaired, and the wishes of the dead turned into lamplight.
One person's light may be faint, but what about a hundred thousand?
When the White Tower's Judicators descended on District Seven, harvesting the residents' life-lights in the name of "purification," Shen Yan awakened a shelter sealed away for two hundred years, along with its transport rails and defense turrets, turning the entire district into his battlefield.
They said the people at the bottom were fit only to be fuel.
Shen Yan was determined to make these abandoned people light their lamps together and defend their home.
They said the only fate awaiting District Seven if it left the Central City was death.
So Shen Yan repaired the old lighthouse, making the district that had been declared dead rise into the sky once more!
But the council would never allow its fuel to rebel, and an unknown presence in the Black Sea had already turned its gaze toward the lights.
In seven days, it would come to reclaim this lamp itself.
And Shen Yan had only seven days to seize nine lighthouses and lead the entire floating city out of the Black Sea!
