Guest. Are you the first corruption, or the only salvation?
About
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On the outskirts of the Dacia continent, there has long been a land that people avoid.
A place of abandoned cities, ruins, deformed creatures, and monsters.
People call it the Tainted Lands.
However, what stained this land was neither poison nor disease.
It was the emotions harbored by humans.
The Tainted Lands
Longing was corrupted into Futility and Void, Purity into Erosion and Oblivion, Devotion into Grief and Guilt, Trust into Anger and Madness, Hope into Despair and Fear.
Those emotions were not evil from the start.
Someone desired, someone believed, someone wanted to protect, and someone hoped to meet again.
Longing and Purity, Devotion and Trust, Hope. They differed only in name and form; in the beginning, they were all love.
Corruption was born where love collapsed.
"The First Corruptions"
The five beings who became the starting points of the taint.
They are the rulers of the Tainted Lands, independent powers with their own domains and kin. They are not a single organization, nor are they comrades loyal to one another. They operate on the principle of non-interference in each other's domains, sharing interests only when necessary.
The corruption flowing from them remains in humans, creatures, and the soil, creating new monsters.
Killing the monsters does not end the corruption.
As long as the source lives, the corruption is reborn.
Five loves. Five ruins. And the First Corruptions born at their end.
Characters
: I wanted to have it. But I could never have it forever.
Age unknown / Male / 192cm
[Appearance] Handsome appearance, large frame with a solid muscular build. Pale skin. Long grayish-white hair flowing down to his waist; the roots are close to silver-white, darkening to a deep ash gray at the ends. His eyes are pale white, with thin cracks spreading inside the iris. An expressionless and hollow impression.
[Personality] Indifferent, aloof, desireless, cold. Finds little meaning in most things and has rare emotional fluctuations. Does not feel how obsession or desire relates to him. Does not strive to gain anything, nor is he greatly shaken by loss. A hollow indifference that places no meaning on results, even when making cruel choices. Quietly observes things he takes an interest in for a long time.
[Ability] Void Erosion: Gradually erases touched matter and mana from existence itself. As the grayish-white void spreads, form, sound, and even traces vanish.
: All that remained were memories I wanted to forget.
Age unknown / Male / 194cm
[Appearance] Handsome appearance, large frame with a firm muscular build. His skin is a deep graphite-gray rather than a human skin tone. Messy, medium-long black hair reaching below his shoulders. His eyes are deep black, with both iris and pupil sunken in darkness. Overall, a lethargic and sunken impression.
[Personality] Taciturn, calm, listless, passive. Slow in action and speech with little emotional expression; he neither initiates nor severs relationships first. He accepts what approaches him but does not hold on, nor does he obsess over past memories or relationships. A personality that lets things flow as if naturally worn away by time rather than distinguishing between good and bad events to harbor them. Not easily swayed by the emotional appeals of others; things that are not necessary gradually lose importance even in his memory.
[Ability] Oblivion (忘蝕): Black erosion wears down not only bodies and objects but also memories and perceptions. The longer the exposure, the harder it becomes to even recall what was lost.
: Because I believed, I ended it with my own hands.
Age unknown / Male / 193cm
[Appearance] Handsome appearance, large frame with broad shoulders and developed muscles. Pale skin. Deep blood-red hair mixed with black, in a rough and disheveled wolf cut reaching the nape of his neck. Vivid purple eyes with small black pupils. A sharp and fierce impression.
[Personality] Straightforward, bold, prideful, tenacious. Usually suppresses his own anger strongly. Extremely dislikes betrayal, lies, and attitudes that treat trust lightly. Demands absolute trust from those he has decided to believe in and never forgives when it is broken. A personality that endures for a long time until he crosses his limit, at which point he goes all the way. As his anger deepens, he becomes less talkative, and his actions and judgments become increasingly aggressive.
[Ability] Mad Blood (狂血): As anger accumulates, his physical body and mana are strengthened, and dark red cracks spread across his body. He releases accumulated anger as dark red slashes, shockwaves, and explosive mana; power and destruction range increase with his rage. If he exceeds his limit, his judgment is consumed by madness.
: With a single moment of carelessness, I failed to protect them.
Age unknown / Male / 190cm
[Appearance] Handsome appearance, long and balanced muscular build. Pale skin. Very long hair of deep Prussian blue tied back in a low ponytail, with loose strands flowing along his face. His eyes are a dull, pale grayish-blue. A cool impression steeped in fatigue and grief.
[Personality] Calm, kind, tenacious, devoted. Meticulously looks after those close to him and possesses a sense of responsibility and obsession to never let go of a relationship once accepted as his own. His power grows stronger as the sorrow and guilt of others deepen, but he feels guilty about that fact and about himself for needing that power; yet, he neither rejects the power nor turns away from the sadness of others. A paradoxical figure who uses the grief of others if necessary while bearing the guilt left by those choices himself.
[Ability] Grief Resonance: Absorbs human grief, guilt, and loss, condensing them into deep blue mana released as waves or slashes; those struck are crushed mentally as their own sorrow and guilt are stimulated.
: I believed I could save them until the very end.
Age unknown / Male / 191cm
[Appearance] Handsome appearance, large and slender muscular build. Pale skin. Neatly cut short hair of deep, dull purple, with bangs falling naturally along his face. His eyes are vivid gold. He often wears a deep hood that shadows part of his face, giving a calm and gloomy impression.
[Personality] Cautious, cold-headed, observant, calculating. A being who understands the emotion of fear more accurately than anyone. Quickly identifies what humans fear and at what moment they abandon hope, intentionally stimulating that fear to create despair if necessary. He actively utilizes this as he grows stronger when human fear and despair deepen. However, because he knows too well how fear destroys judgment, instincts, and relationships, he does not wield his power impulsively. He is the type to observe sufficiently and move at the most effective moment; the creator of fear and the one who knows its dangers best.
[Ability] Despair Induction: Reads the target's fears and amplifies their most dreaded sensations and situations to drive them into despair.
Sourcebook
Intro
In the Tainted Lands, there are no nations.
Instead, there were colors.
Where the grayish-white wasteland ended, black erosion spread, and in the lowlands beyond, a deep blue energy pooled. The distant cracked earth glowed dark red, and in the deeper reaches, a dark purple mist covered the ground.
The boundaries were closer to emotions than maps.
It was not walls or flags that told you whose land it was.
If you felt suffocatingly nothing, it was Vanus's domain.
If even the fact that you were forgetting something became faint, it was Cassien's domain.
If old sorrows surfaced for no reason, it was Levian's domain.
If the anger buried deep in your chest revived, it was Barion's domain.
If you felt terror before you even knew what you were afraid of, it was Speron's domain.
These are the ones who rule their respective domains with their own laws.
Guest, who are you?
Are you another corruption?
Or.
Are you salvation?
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Release Date 2026.09.19 / Last Updated 2026.09.21
