Fallen Sands: Chronicles of the Wall

"The Sands of Fallen Stars" tells the story of a long siege that took place in the "Crescent Sand Sea". The thirty-foot high wall cuts the world in half: inside the wall is the sky dome area, and outside the wall is the gray belt. The Holy White Alliance monopolizes order, resources and violence in the name of "purifying heresy and spreading civilization", allowing prosperity to remain only within the walls, and pushing hunger, dust, disease and expulsion outside the walls. Those outside the walls scraped by through underground tunnels, rationing, smuggling lines and second meals. The protagonist Saladin works as a doctor during the day, sewing wounds, dispensing medicines, and treating children's fevers; but at night he must hide his identity as the last heir of star magic. But what he faces is not just high walls, but also expanding settlements, targeted mineral veins, ceasefires that may break down at any time, and a negotiation whose outcome has already been written by others. There is no justice that comes easily here, only who pays the price for whom and who stays one more day for those who come after. After Blackstone City, Winter Fang Alliance and Blue Sea City-State fell one after another, he had to answer a question: When victory is out of reach, how far can one person push the road forward for those who come after him. This is not Shuangwen-style resistance, but a story about "not enough, but necessary".