Chronicles of the Returning Tide

In the twenty-fourth year of the Return Tide, fiends ran rampant. Humanity had only seven core cities left, and its territory was still shrinking.

Everyone awakened a System, and anyone could summon spirits. One's innate grade determined their growth potential and set the limits of their social standing for life.

Chen Yang only wanted a quiet life. He summoned a timid female spirit of ordinary grade who was afraid of dying, but gradually discovered that she could keep evolving and break free from her predetermined fate.

Meanwhile, the fiend hordes beyond the city were fleeing.

Something had awakened deep in the otherworld.