The Lonely City in the Gray Fog

In 1995 by the old calendar, the first year of the Gray Mist. At midnight on New Year's Day, a vast gray fog suddenly erupted on the outskirts of Vladimir. Like a gray tsunami, it swept across the land, swallowing everything on the city's outskirts in an instant and wrapping the entire city tight. From then on, there was no day or night here, only endless gray mist blanketing the world forever.

The fog looked no different from the white mist of an ordinary morning, but concealed deadly dangers. Once enveloped by the haze, people lost all five senses. Even the streets just a few steps away fell silent, and none of those who ventured into the dense fog ever came back out.

Water, electricity, communications, and other basic services completely collapsed one after another. Mutated beasts, bizarre monsters, and profane demons kept emerging from the fog, while virulent plagues spread unchecked. In just one month, tens of thousands of citizens perished in despair.

Just as civilization teetered on the brink of collapse, three witches stepped forward and raised the last line of defense for the isolated city.

The Brown Witch, Hamer, commanded countless giant rats to form a brown tide, sweeping the monsters roaming the city clean away.

The Azure Witch, Eve, raised a colossal ice wall to seal off the fog zone. She developed