At the Sanxingdui archaeological site in Guanghan, Sichuan, archaeology PhD student Chen Mo falls into a fissure while excavating a bronze mask with protruding eyes. His consciousness passes through a purple void, plunging through a false starry sky made up of countless eyes. When he wakes, he has become a dying knight in another world, Eldran: Reno Aydwood. It is a world of knights, magic, and holy light, but it also conceals horrors far more profound than darkness. The archmage Aldrich has lived for two hundred years, yet in a prophecy he sees something he should never have seen: the Dark Tide, an ancient power from beyond the stars, drawing near far faster than expected.
Chen Mo has two spiritual presences within him: one belongs to a young knight who has just died, and the other comes from distant Earth. His holy light is unnaturally pure, silver patterns faintly appear in his palm, and his consciousness can glimpse the archmage's mind, crushed beneath the weight of knowledge. In the sky over the northeastern corner of Silvermoon City, at the center of an array formed by eight stars, the vacant position seems to be waiting for him to fill it.
When the Dark Tide's vanguard reaches the city gates, and the chiming clock sounds an ominous note at midnight, Chen Mo must find his place in this unfamiliar world, not only to survive, but because the eyes watching him from the purple void have known from the very beginning that he would come.
