In this magical world where one's awakened talent defines their status, even life and death, eight-year-old Kane was labeled as "zero-star" and thrown into the Wasteland of Lament by his biological father, alongside a charred, tattered rag doll.
Ten years later, the "worthless trash" in everyone's eyes had long become a ninth-tier powerhouse. Yet he was still tricked back to the city of Leah by a belated family letter. His father had no intention of bringing him home; instead, he wanted Kane's eight-star elder brother Ed to kill him with his own hands, using a blood sacrifice to wash away the curse of dark magic.
The city-wide live-streamed academy trial thus turned into a public execution ground prepared for Kane. His combat feats were mocked, the truth tampered with, the blood sacrifice packaged as justice, and even the envoys of the Seven Towers knelt before the wrong master. It was not until Vera took a fatal sword strike meant for Kane that the charred rag doll shattered with a crash, and the Dark Moon sealed away for ten years finally awoke.
The Tenth Star illuminated the city of Leah. The outcast once trampled under everyone's feet extinguished seven layers of forbidden spells with a single sword, forcing the impostor, the law enforcers, and the father who abandoned him to kneel one by one. However, when the entire city began scrambling to acknowledge his worth, what Kane chose to reclaim was not the surname Vermont, but the name his mother left him, and the person who was willing to have her soul scattered for him.
After the trial ended, the Black Sea split open, and a giant Dark Moon Gate linked to Vera's origin rose slowly. Kane finally found his home, while the secret Vera had lost for a thousand years was just beginning to unfold.
