Bronze Ashen Patterns

Chen Shang is merely a down-and-out man trapped at the bottom of society. A bronze gear passed down through generations of Pulse Guardians drags him into an ancient mystery that spans the globe. The statues of Easter Island, the Egyptian pyramids, and the strange creatures recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas were never myths or legends. They are bronze ember-patterns left behind after the collapse of the first two cycles of civilization. Civilizations are formatted by higher-dimensional “Administrators.” All their splendor turns to ash, and only these patterns quietly endure, concealing the underlying rules of the world’s resets. Now, the third human civilization has reached the brink of destruction. There are no world-destroying monsters or struggles to survive in a wasteland. In the gaps of the modern world, he can only piece together fragments of prehistoric ruins and search for a faint chance to break the predetermined cycle of fate and prevent the reset. Civilization turns to ash, but the patterns still burn.