Ashes Stele

Name: Ashes Stele
Author: the you in my writing

by the you in my writing

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In a dying world, a boy picked up a stone. Three thousand years ago, the gods burned the sky and died. Now the world is fading. The only power left comes from ancient relics — but using them costs you. Every time you borrow their strength, the ghost of the original owner eats a little more of you from the inside. Chen Jin is thirteen. He lives alone in a ruined temple, splitting firewood for two steamed buns a day. He doesn't know his parents. He doesn't know why the mark on his wrist burns at night. Then he finds a broken stone slab in a cursed forest. It speaks to him. It shows him things he shouldn't see. And it draws enemies he never knew existed. The Offering Hall wants to cut him open. The Skull Hunters want his head on a wall. And the grumpy old man who saved his life — the one who says he's "just a herb gatherer" — is hiding a secret three thousand years old. Chen Jin has never been good at listening. He wants answers. He wants to know why the sky burned. He wants to know who carved his name into a stone older than the kingdoms of men. And if the truth kills him? At least he'll die knowing.