Over three hundred years, humanity crawled from the Solar System toward the Milky Way, surviving not through strength, but by simply staying alive.
In the eyes of the Wanchao, the Silent Ones, and the Torchstar Immortal Domain, this young species was weak, noisy, and insignificant.
Until the night the "Millennium Pact" was signed, when the Wanchao fleet set the border outpost Rust Ring ablaze amid cheers for peace.
Nineteen-year-old apprentice mechanic Lin Yan awakens a monstrous ability amid a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood:
He can see the causal threads of all things. Before a bullet is fired, he sees its trajectory. Before a warship makes a warp jump, he sees its route. Before a lie is spoken, he sees the intent to kill.
Why has humanity been targeted? Why are the Silent Ones collecting human consciousness?
And why do both paths of civilization, mechanical ascension and biological ascension, lead to this weak species?
When the oldest war in the universe finally tears open a corner of the truth, Lin Yan understands: humanity's weakness is not its original sin. The true sin is the ability to see countless possible futures at once.
Armed with this "Causal Vision," he will lead humanity from the very bottom of the star sea and fight a path forward through a fight to the death.
The universe is vast, and civilizations are many.
But this war, which will set the entire Star Abyss ablaze, begins at Rust Ring.
