Born of a war god’s last vow, raised in the Golden City’s slums, Itsuki hides sparks in calloused hands. When demons strike and runes ignite, the city must choose: monster or savior. And Itsuki must choose what, and who, to burn.

Arata Renji is thirty-four, a man who buried his youth under commutes and deadlines, wondering if his life would ever matter. Then a flash of blinding light tears him from Tokyo and casts him into Caelestia, a sky-city of crystal towers adrift above the abyss. There, the radiant being Elyon of...

Kaen was born in ash and raised in silence. The slums gave him nothing—until the forbidden fire inside him awakened. Now marked by a legacy that once burned kings to ash, he enters the elite Academy that would rather see him contained than crowned. Surrounded by noble heirs, hidden enemies, an...

When a mysterious rune crashes into Tokyo, Kazuki gains godlike powers and becomes the vessel of an ancient war god. Now hunted by monsters and haunted by his past, he must fight for survival, and his soul, in a city teetering between chaos and hope.