The Ember Covenant

On the night a meteor fell, Ayoti, a blacksmith in the Sangha Republic, was brewing medicine for his pregnant wife. He made a wish upon the shooting star for his child's safe birth. Before the wish was finished, the sky was torn apart. Void energy surged like a tidal wave, and human civilization teetered on the brink of collapse within 72 hours. Mutants devoured cities, the church sowed seeds of destruction under the guise of 'holy water,' and a purple beam of annihilation from deep space approached at near-light speed. This is not an epic of heroes saving the world. It is a story of ordinary people—soldiers, teachers, engineers, nurses, fishermen, even a wealthy girl who owned a yacht—choosing 'not to retreat.' From Earth reduced to ashes to arks drifting through deep space; from 870,000 survivors struggling to survive to 60 billion civilizations reborn on the Morning Star. Two hundred years of blood and tears, six generations of legacy. For the sake of tomorrow, they gave today to the darkness. This is a requiem for all the ordinary guardians.