A Hymn to the Realm of Glowing Embers

At seventeen, Xing Shou was a second-year high school student. One night, while drinking a five-yuan beer, he fell into a silent, dark-red wasteland.

This world was called the Shining Ashen Domain. There were no magic academies or gentle elves, only "Starlight Stones" monopolized by the upper classes, and magical mutants that kept changing in the purple fog.

To survive, Xing Shou signed a life-and-death contract with the 14th Mercenary Corps, just to get a bite to eat. Even after being swindled, he had no choice but to go along with it.

In this cannon-fodder camp, where human life was worth less than grass, almost everyone clung to survival with the help of something called Starlight Stones. Xing Shou, however, could only rely on the clues his teacher had given him, hacking his way through a bloody path to the truth.

"I don't want to be some kind of savior. I just want my own life back."