New Work | "Annihilation King"
Genre: Sci-Fi | Evolutionary Mutation Release Date: December 1, 2024, 23:59
Keywords: Flesh Punk, Outer and Inner Worlds
The outer world: Arknights. The inner world: Dark Souls.
Synopsis: Zhao Zeming was an ordinary vocational high school student.
Though the nation had fractured, warlords had carved up the land, the economy had collapsed, and mutated Infected were constantly plotting massacres.
None of that had anything to do with him.
Until one day, he discovered that some rather unusual presences had appeared in his peaceful everyday life.
A book that had flown to him for no reason dragged him into a dream world he could not escape.
Whenever night fell, it began a frenzied, absurd journey.
He would be trapped forever in this hunting ground called "Annihilation," until he sacrificed every world and carved a path through the encirclement for one person.
Using the ashes of countless lives to forge the crown of a king.
Reading Guide: "Annihilation King" used a parallel narrative across outer and inner worlds.
Outer World: The story took place on Lan Yuan Star, a planet roughly three times the size of Earth. After the old emperor of the Star Ring Empire, one of the continent's ruling Great Powers, passed away, the empire collapsed with a thunderous crash. The imperial family, Revolutionaries, republicans, and opportunists all took the stage, beginning a chaotic war among warlords.
Lan Yuan Star's overall technological level stood around the middle to late Cold War era. Transistor technology had developed slowly, while aerospace research had gradually shifted toward massive airships. Medicine and biotechnology in some major nations were advancing at high speed.
It was foreseeable that these technologies would shine brilliantly in war.
No World War had ever broken out, and because the continent was so vast, monarchies