Ten years after the nuclear war, civilization has collapsed, and in the wasteland everything runs on barter. Every day he picks through the ruins for scraps to trade for a mouthful of food, barely surviving — until he stumbles on a mysterious system built on alien technology. Just before the market closes, two healthy young sisters are put on a stall and sold like goods while onlookers circle hungrily. Clutching the last of his rations, he steps forward, and from that moment he is pushed onto a path to rebuild order in the wasteland.
A dying grandfather arranges his granddaughter's marriage to a man who seems useless and incompetent. In truth, the groom is an almighty genie who grants wishes, though not eternal life or endless requests. As the marriage begins, his own hidden wish quietly starts to shift.
A young man in casual clothes can spot a five-hundred-thousand-dollar watch's hidden flaw at a glance, yet the staff mistake him for a bodyguard. When gunmen storm the store and aim at a child, he studies an attacker's wrist and names an old fracture beneath the skin. His real identity is only beginning to surface.
Seven years into marriage, he's mocked as the family's incompetent son-in-law, fumbling even a birthday cake errand. But he's really the young president of a major conglomerate, with a secretary already waiting outside. At his wife's birthday party, his true identity is about to come out.
On the day the Heil clan awakens their inherited powers, everyone bursts with light except the second son, who shows nothing at all. Branded a disgrace and cast out by his own family, he is sent off to a place called Dragon's Hollow with a single order: awaken your power, or die.
A luxury car driven by a wealthy family's daughter hits a young girl on the street. Instead of apologizing, the mother mocks the victim's family, forces the father to lick blood off her shoes, and threatens to have them jailed. The humiliation plants the seed of a quiet revenge.
