Outside the Astrolabe

This is a story about taking a "vacation" - of course, no one really gets a vacation. He is the alchemist sage Changge, a lonely watcher who was left alone outside the astrolabe to guard the seal after the war between gods a thousand years ago. When his wife's soul finally recovered under the grinding of the moon, he finally got a long-lost "vacation" - he took the pseudonym Cole Silverleaf and walked around the world as an ordinary second-level alchemist. The mobile workshop in the border town, the herb drying rack in the sun, the chat about the devil and monsters in the tavern... He thought he could finally live like an ordinary person. However, when the first wisp of black hyphae with a corrupt smell appeared at the edge of the Forest of Gaia, when a secret letter marked "Devil Pollution" was sent to Hermetica by Swift Eagle, when the woman in the white dress holding the soul box sang a sad war song—— He knew that this "vacation" had ended early. A crazy conspiracy hidden on the edge of the forest, a desperate lament about apocalypse and conquest, an alchemist who is forced to wear the mask of a sage again. He has seen stars fall, and he has seen the world shatter. He originally wanted to watch this season's flowers blossom quietly. But the world has no plans to let him retire just yet.