Guest Between the Worlds
"Two things fill the soul with ever new and ever stronger wonder and awe, the more often and the more persistently we reflect upon them - the starry sky above me and the moral law within me." — Immanuel Kant.
When Xu Le finally tore his gaze away from that line and truly saw the stars for the first time, sesame-seed specks of light through a layer of dust, he felt no shock. Instead, he was overcome with rage: the stars beyond the sky in this region burned so blindingly bright, how could anyone endure it? Day after day dazzled by those lights, he feared that one day he would become like those feral cats on the mining road, driven mad the moment a lantern beam strikes them.
Xu Le, a native of the Eastern Forest Region, left his desolate, half-abandoned planet carrying strange, eccentric knowledge embedded in his mind and a power in his body that no one in this world had ever encountered. There was no chaos within him. He stepped into this most boring and at the same time most fascinating world with a blind, almost absurd sense of contentment.
The life of an outcast must be truly thrilling…