Have you ever wondered why you sometimes feel someone behind you, only to turn around and find nothing there?
It isn't your imagination. It's something you've been "allowed" to forget.
This world runs on consensus: if everyone believes there are no ghosts, then there really are no ghosts. Anything that defies common sense is pushed into another frequency, becoming a shadow layer ordinary people can never see. For thousands of years, the visible and shadow worlds have left each other alone, each following its own path.
Until the wall began to crack.
Lu Chen is nineteen, a high school senior repeating his final year. The last person in his class to remember his name was the woman serving food in the cafeteria, because she had never remembered it. He lives a life of constant neglect, like a shadow among the crowd, so light he has no weight.
On the eve of the college entrance exam, the shadows of the entire city vanished for one second. He was the only one who noticed.
Then he discovered that he wasn't merely being overlooked. The world was forgetting him completely. His frequency reading was zero: not low, but zero. As if the world had never made a place for him.
His ability is called "Absence."
When he activates it, he can be erased completely from the awareness of every living thing. Superpowered people can't sense him, supernatural spirits can't track him, and even the Abyss of Erosion, which can devour anything, slides right past him.
But the price is that even when he doesn't use his ability, information about him slowly drains away from the world like sand through an hourglass.
He is a ghost who should never have existed, yet he is forced to stand at the boundary where two worlds are collapsing.
When the long night falls and all things vanish,
the nameless boy draws the blade that severs illusion!
[Dark World God System Setting·Eclipse Messenger]
Real name: Saloga, meaning "moon-gnawing fangs"
Rank: Dark Realm·Lower God (but in the human world, it is enough to match the initial combat power of "Peeping into the Sky" of human cultivators above the moon-reaching realm)
Appearance:
Saroja originally had a humanoid torso and four arms in the dark world. His head was a incomplete black moon, and his eyes were two purple will-o'-the-wisps. But when he comes from across the plane, he usually only projects a huge dark purple eyeball - the surface of the eyeball is covered with spider-like golden blood vessels, and each blood vessel is a miniature space rift that can absorb the power of the void. When his eyes move, they will make a rustling sound similar to grinding teeth. That is his mind chewing on the rules of reality.
Authority:
Saroja is in charge of one of the three laws of the dark world - "erosion and anchoring".
-Erosion: He can slowly pollute the spatial structure of the real world, making it fragile and brittle, thereby opening a gap for large-scale invasions from the dark world. The reason why the crack above the city continues to expand is precisely because he sowed "seeds of eclipse" in the space mezzanine here months in advance.
-Anchor: He is the top "anchor architect" in the dark world. The teleportation anchor point he built is not only far more stable than ordinary dark world generals, but also has the ability to self-repair and camouflage - even if the surface is damaged by external forces, the core will escape into the subspace and continue to grow. If Lu Chen hadn't directly hit the pupil core in the 0.3 Second gap this time, Saroja could have regrouped after the anchor point "collapsed".
Personality and behavior:
Saroja is not as bloodthirsty and manic as ordinary gods in the dark world. He is more like a calm hunter or chess player. He likes to reveal part of his strength in front of his prey, lure the opponent to use all his strength, and then reveal his true trump card at the last moment. One of the words he often talks about is: "Fear is the best anchor - when you are afraid of me, you have been nailed to this land by me."
He doesn't care about life and death for his subordinates (such as General Bloodthorn), and believes that the value of cannon fodder lies in paving the way for the main force. But he extremely hated having his plan disrupted - the fact that Lu Chen and Sickle broke into the crack and accurately hit his core was regarded by him as a great shame and humiliation, and he would use more means to retaliate in subsequent chapters.
Hidden settings (long-term foreshadowing):
1. The origin of the sealed power between him and Lu Chen: The moment Saroja was hit in the core, he felt an extremely weak aura from Lu Chen's fist, but one that made his soul tremble - that was the aura of a long-lost ancient god in the dark world. The ancient god was suppressed by the gods because he tried to devour the main plane of the real world hundreds of years ago, and his body was divided and sealed in multiple worlds. The sealed power in Lu Chen's body was most likely one of the fragments of the ancient god. Foreshadowing: In subsequent chapters, Saroja will give up other tasks and instead pursue Lu Chen with all his strength, trying to gain promotion to a higher god by seizing the ancient god fragments in his body.
2. He is not acting alone: behind Saroja there is a high-level organization in the dark world called the "Dark Moon Council". The council is composed of five superior gods, and Saroja is just one of the "pathfinders" they send to the human world. The city was just one of many invasion points chosen by the Darkmoon Council. Foreshadowing: To pave the way for the later introduction of larger dark forces and the possible need for humans to unite multiple forces (including some neutral gods).
3. His weakness: Saroja's authority is highly dependent on "erosion" and "anchoring", which means that his combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced in a completely unfamiliar, unpolluted pure space. In addition, his body is sleeping deep in the dark world, and what is projected into the human world is only a part of his power clone - if the clone is completely destroyed, his body in the dark world will also fall into a period of weakness that lasts for hundreds of years. Therefore, he is actually more afraid of death than he seems. Foreshadowing effect: The human side can use special means (such as purification artifacts or formations) to create a battlefield to restrain him in the later stage.
4. His old grudge with the "Scythe": Saroja knew the skill of the Scythe - many years ago, he had a fight with a watchman who used the same skill in the ruins of another city. The watchman finally severely injured his clone at the cost of his life, causing him to recuperate for decades before recovering. The master or senior of Sickle is probably the same person back then. Foreshadowing: When Scythe learns Saroja's true identity, personal emotions will conflict with the mission; Saroja will also prioritize psychological and tactical attacks on Scythe.
[Dark World God System Setting·Eclipse Messenger] Real name: Saloga, meaning "moon-gnawing fangs" Rank: Dark Realm·Lower God (but in the human world, it is enough to match the initial combat power of "Peeping into the Sky" of human cultivators above the moon-reaching realm) Appearance: Saroja originally had a humanoid torso and four arms in the dark world. His head was a incomplete black moon, and his eyes were two purple will-o'-the-wisps. But when he comes from across the plane, he usually only projects a huge dark purple eyeball - the surface of the eyeball is covered with spider-like golden blood vessels, and each blood vessel is a miniature space rift that can absorb the power of the void. When his eyes move, they will make a rustling sound similar to grinding teeth. That is his mind chewing on the rules of reality. Authority: Saroja is in charge of one of the three laws of the dark world - "erosion and anchoring". -Erosion: He can slowly pollute the spatial structure of the real world, making it fragile and brittle, thereby opening a gap for large-scale invasions from the dark world. The reason why the crack above the city continues to expand is precisely because he sowed "seeds of eclipse" in the space mezzanine here months in advance. -Anchor: He is the top "anchor architect" in the dark world. The teleportation anchor point he built is not only far more stable than ordinary dark world generals, but also has the ability to self-repair and camouflage - even if the surface is damaged by external forces, the core will escape into the subspace and continue to grow. If Lu Chen hadn't directly hit the pupil core in the 0.3 Second gap this time, Saroja could have regrouped after the anchor point "collapsed". Personality and behavior: Saroja is not as bloodthirsty and manic as ordinary gods in the dark world. He is more like a calm hunter or chess player. He likes to reveal part of his strength in front of his prey, lure the opponent to use all his strength, and then reveal his true trump card at the last moment. One of the words he often talks about is: "Fear is the best anchor - when you are afraid of me, you have been nailed to this land by me." He doesn't care about life and death for his subordinates (such as General Bloodthorn), and believes that the value of cannon fodder lies in paving the way for the main force. But he extremely hated having his plan disrupted - the fact that Lu Chen and Sickle broke into the crack and accurately hit his core was regarded by him as a great shame and humiliation, and he would use more means to retaliate in subsequent chapters. Hidden settings (long-term foreshadowing): 1. The origin of the sealed power between him and Lu Chen: The moment Saroja was hit in the core, he felt an extremely weak aura from Lu Chen's fist, but one that made his soul tremble - that was the aura of a long-lost ancient god in the dark world. The ancient god was suppressed by the gods because he tried to devour the main plane of the real world hundreds of years ago, and his body was divided and sealed in multiple worlds. The sealed power in Lu Chen's body was most likely one of the fragments of the ancient god. Foreshadowing: In subsequent chapters, Saroja will give up other tasks and instead pursue Lu Chen with all his strength, trying to gain promotion to a higher god by seizing the ancient god fragments in his body. 2. He is not acting alone: behind Saroja there is a high-level organization in the dark world called the "Dark Moon Council". The council is composed of five superior gods, and Saroja is just one of the "pathfinders" they send to the human world. The city was just one of many invasion points chosen by the Darkmoon Council. Foreshadowing: To pave the way for the later introduction of larger dark forces and the possible need for humans to unite multiple forces (including some neutral gods). 3. His weakness: Saroja's authority is highly dependent on "erosion" and "anchoring", which means that his combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced in a completely unfamiliar, unpolluted pure space. In addition, his body is sleeping deep in the dark world, and what is projected into the human world is only a part of his power clone - if the clone is completely destroyed, his body in the dark world will also fall into a period of weakness that lasts for hundreds of years. Therefore, he is actually more afraid of death than he seems. Foreshadowing effect: The human side can use special means (such as purification artifacts or formations) to create a battlefield to restrain him in the later stage. 4. His old grudge with the "Scythe": Saroja knew the skill of the Scythe - many years ago, he had a fight with a watchman who used the same skill in the ruins of another city. The watchman finally severely injured his clone at the cost of his life, causing him to recuperate for decades before recovering. The master or senior of Sickle is probably the same person back then. Foreshadowing: When Scythe learns Saroja's true identity, personal emotions will conflict with the mission; Saroja will also prioritize psychological and tactical attacks on Scythe.