Today, Too, I Court Death

They say every man harbors two primal desires deep within: to die a glorious death for a noble ideal, and to fall peacefully asleep in the arms of the one he loves. Cui Xun knows he will never fulfill the second, so he resolves to pursue the first. Yet this is no active quest for self-destruction—rather, it is the choice of a man with no ties and no compelling reason to live, who simply stakes his own existence on the things he wishes to accomplish. From avenging a fallen friend and slaying monsters that appear from nowhere, to aiding an otherworlder in overthrowing an aristocracy and leading a people through a deadly winter—his journey spirals ever outward. He dismantles a super-AI bent on eradicating humanity, destroys an outer god that brings the apocalypse, and annihilates the calamity walkers who threaten to set the galaxy ablaze. And through all these impossible battles, he ultimately dares to attempt one final, audacious goal: to build a utopia.