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In the continent of Iselan, where the meteorite mines ignited the fire of civilization, the mixed-race boy Huertal has been burdened with a curse since birth-the atrocities of his orc father were carved on his fangs, and the blood of his human mother burned under his skin. When humans used alchemy to tear apart the elves' wards, and the orcs fell into madness because of the blood oath totem, this spurned "forbidden child" caught a glimpse of the truth at the auction where he burned himself: the starlight on the forehead of the Order of the Black Rose resonated like a heartbeat with the flickering light deep in the veins. He led the Outcasts to forge the Ember Sword, forge the self-igniting curse in their blood into the Philosopher's Stone, and build towers in the shadow of human artillery and elven starships. When the Eternal Night Rose withered, only the Half-Blood Knights dared to use the ashes of the holy relics of all races to build the city wall; when the Star God parasite broke out of the ground, only Huertal, known as the "living plague", could understand that the ghostly light that gnawed at life in the mines was bleeding the same blood as the star spots deep in the pupils of newborn babies. This is the era when betrayers rewrite their oaths-- Forge the scales with the gold coins of the discriminator, Irrigating the wheat fields with assassin's poison, And the first light of the new world, He will eventually be born from the "filthy blood" that is not recognized by all races.