Ashes: Apocalypse

At the end of the Ash Era, the kingdom was torn apart, and wars raged from the royal capital to the borders. Cinder, the adopted son of a blacksmith, just wants to spend his whole life making iron. But overnight, his adoptive father died and the village burned down. A silver badge with a raven engraved on it was thrust into his arms, and a last sentence he couldn't finish in time - "Go north and find a pilgrim with an old scar on his hand. He owes your father a life." He didn't know that the silver emblem belonged to a legendary bloodline that had long been extinct; he didn't know that the "Battle of the Red Crow" written into the history books twenty years ago contained the truth about his life experience; he didn't even know that the civil war that engulfed the nations, the church's madness in exterminating "witchcraft", and even the secret of the depletion of magic power in the entire world - there was a pair of invisible hands behind it, pushing history inch by inch according to a written script. On the way to the north, he picked up his companions: a noble girl whose family was ruined but who knew heraldry and power; a copyist apprentice who was wanted by the church as a "heretic" and had a forbidden book hidden in his arms; an ascetic whose origins were a mystery and who seemed to have been waiting for him. Four people abandoned by the times decided to pry the foundation of the Millennium Apocalypse. It's just that they don't know yet - the real opponent is never the person on the throne, but...