Evidence of Ashes: Encounter in the Fog

On the continent of Iseland, seven ancient holy dragons used their own souls to forge seven Ash Keys, sealing the void outside the territory and delineating a contract for the symbiosis of the seven native races for generations. As time goes by, the royal power breeds corruption, and the holy religion tampered with ancient precepts to create false theocracy. Humans, elves, dwarves, barbarians, orcs, dwarfs, and swamp ogres are alienated and hostile to each other. The invisible void quietly erodes the earth with the obsession of all living beings as nourishment. Orcs corrupt tribes, palace dignitaries, and the treacherous sects of the East have colluded with them one after another. The fissures in the plane continue to expand, and the crisis of annihilation is approaching step by step. The continent is divided from east to west. The west relies on magic power, totems, and holy light to maintain the decayed old order. The east cultivates the innate Qi Dao alone and suppresses evil cultivators alone. The two major civilizations have been isolated for a long time. The gods watch with cold eyes as the world declines. The old order is on the verge of collapse. ----- The lone detective Kane travels across the continent and gets acquainted with eight traumatized strangers in one case after another: the Moon God Priest, the Shadow Half-Elf, the Wronged Dwarf, the Elf Historian, the Wasteland Barbarian, the Mechanical Gnome, the Orc Shaman, and the Ogre Magician. The nine people transcended racial prejudices, formed a family covenant through bonds, and formed the Ashes of Stars mercenary group. They traveled through city-states, wastelands, and ruins, exposing the sins of the church and the royal family, mediating the generations of grudges of various ethnic groups, and linked up with the monks of the Eastern Empire to gather the Ash Key to fight against the origin of the void and the fallen ancient dragon. Without the blessing of gods and the care of destiny, a group of mortals used their flesh and blood to tear apart the illusions of the world, and used the bonds of mutual protection to write an epic that belongs to mortals. The dragon ashes scattered in the world are the eternal witnesses of their defiance to save the world.