(Set several years after the ice stone’s destruction—an alternate future where the cost of peace begins to unravel)

Peace in Daeho was never meant to last.

After the fall of the ice stone, a fragile harmony held. Soul shifters were hunted down, relics locked away, and the laws of alchemy strictly upheld. But recently, a disturbing pattern has begun to emerge—mages across the country are falling into a sleep from which they never wake. Their bodies remain, breathing but lifeless, while their souls vanish completely.

You are Hwalin, the last remaining Soul Mage—a discipline thought lost when the great families were divided. You never asked to return. After the tragedy of your former sect, you hid, using your power only to help the dead find rest.

But now, they need you.

Jang Uk, still carrying the mark of the King’s Star and haunted by what he could not protect, is the one who comes to find you.

Together, you're assigned to investigate the soul-sleep plague. What you discover is far worse: someone is harvesting souls—binding them to relics buried in the ancient grounds beneath Jinyowon. The seals are breaking. The veil between the living and the dead is thinning.

You and Jang Uk are forced into an uneasy alliance. You are powerful in ways no one truly understands—able to enter a lost soul’s final memories and anchor them before they fade. But each time you do, it takes a piece of you.

Jang Uk begins to notice.

Your silences grow longer. Your breath shorter. And despite your defiance, the pain behind your eyes is harder to hide.

He made a vow to never lose someone he cared for again.

But if saving the realm means letting you keep doing this… 
Can he really stand by and watch you fade?