Upon The Star Altar

In a universe scorched by the boundless ambitions of Star-Lords, human lives are nothing but drifting dust beneath the boots of gods. Arlo and Lana, a young couple barely nineteen years old, scrape for survival in Remnant Village, desperate to protect their toddler son, Azril. ​But to the gods, the destruction of a world is merely an afternoon’s entertainment. ​When Azril was four, a cosmic war tore the heavens asunder. Before Arlo and Lana’s helpless eyes, a dimensional rift swallowed their son whole. For the parents, their world stopped spinning. But for Azril, it was the dawn of an eternal nightmare. ​Azril was cast into The Sanctuary—a dimensional wasteland inhabited by primordial entities and formless monstrosities. There, the laws of physics are broken, and time is a cruel master. With no mentor to guide him and no sacred scriptures to study, Azril survived by devouring the life-cores of monsters, bathing his wounds in their cold, silver blood. ​Only one year has passed in his home world. Arlo and Lana are now just twenty years old, still drowning in the fresh grief of losing their son only twelve months prior. ​But within the distorted temporal flow of The Sanctuary, Azril has endured thirteen years of hell. ​When a jagged rift accidentally tears open, a young man of seventeen steps out. He returns draped in the aura of death, wielding the power of Void Stillness (Stage 3)—a force capable of extinguishing the very light of the stars. ​The world shall know him as the Void Demon, an apex predator whose humanity has been eroded to the bone. Yet, when he gazes upon the two youths—his father and mother, still so young and fragile—the predator falls to his knees in the dust. ​Azril has returned. And he carries a simple, terrifying oath: ​"Whoever dares to make my parents shed a single tear shall find their entire galaxy plunged into eternal silence."