Willing Sacrifice

Nothing in this world comes in vain. When you make a wish to the prayer messenger, you have to pay a price - life span, soul, luck, loved ones, memory, and senses. The greater the gain, the greater the loss. This is the ancient law of equivalent exchange. Absolutely, without exception. For thousands of years, countless people have gone crazy because of this, and countless people have sacrificed themselves to fight against the evil gods called "Prayers". Zhiyuan of the Song Dynasty, Li Congzhi of the Ming Dynasty, and Tang Bin of the Qing Dynasty - official history records that they were officials who banned the destruction of evil sacrifices, but no one has ever known the true price. What they sacrificed no one remembers. No one remembers who they are. Today, 24-year-old Chen Jin is just an ordinary person. He sorted through historical materials and saw the names of those called "madmen" and "monsters", but regarded them as absurd legends. Until he was "seen" by the prayer messenger. He's still just a regular guy. No awakening, no willingness, no cheats. Even sacrifices can only be made in the most primitive way - exchanging the soul of a mortal for the last wish. There is no protagonist in this story, no resurrection from the dead, and no miracle of escaping from the catastrophe. There is only a group of people destined for annihilation, making a resistance destined to fail. Their ending has already been decided: The body dies and the soul disappears, leaving no trace in the world. And they still kept going.