The world of Aethrion was not born. It was broken.
Every land, every sky, every sea was stitched together from countless forgotten realities. Some claimed it was the punishment of the Silent Gods. Others whispered it was the handiwork of the Architect of Keys—a being that could lock and unlock the truths of existence.
The world runs on a strange, ancient law known as Eclipsa, the binding principle of "Truth and Mask." Nothing in Aethrion is what it seems—people, powers, even history itself wear masks, and to strip them away is both power and curse.
When the Crimson Eclipse rises once in an eon, one among billions is chosen by the law itself to bear the Maskbreaker's Brand—the ability to strip reality bare.
This time, the chosen one is a calm, sharp-eyed boy named Yurin Crimson.
And yet—
he smiles when he learns this.
A smile too calm. Too sharp. Too knowing.
As if he had been waiting for this moment for centuries.
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