Ash Code Apocalypse Survival

Introduction to the work "Code of Ashes" The sun is dead and the world is cooling. Thick industrial smoke covered the sky, and the ash that lingered all year round was like black snow, covering this wasteland called the "Ember Era". Humanity huddles in city-states powered by huge geothermal engines, eking out a living. Here, magic has long been lost, replaced by the "phlogiston technique" that refines ashes into energy. Spellcasters are called "igniters". They burn their own vitality, memories and even emotions in exchange for power. The price is that their bodies gradually turn into unconscious obsidian statues - an ultimate curse called "carbonization". Allen, a humble "scavenger" in the lower city, makes a living by extracting residual phlogiston from corpses, struggling to survive in radiation and poverty. His life should have been so gloomy until he found a palm-sized book on the body of a homeless man, with a cover made of the leather of an unknown creature - the "Code of Ashes". This forbidden relic chose him. It can swallow sins, reforge embers, and give Allen the terrifying power to reverse energy and control ash. However, this power is not a gift, but a deal with the devil. Every time he uses it, his humanity is stripped away, pushing him into the abyss of "carbonization." When the hounds of the Tribunal smelled the taboo, and when the truth concealed by the city-state's top leaders came to light, Allen was forced to embark on a path of no return. He is no longer the scavenger who is slaughtered by others, but the first spark that ignites the old world. In the symphony of ashes and steel, he will reveal the end of the "Great Cooling"