Cursed Ascendant

For sixteen years, Kazuya lived on flying islands, taught that the world beneath the clouds was a void of absolute darkness. His resentment for his suffocating home is finally answered when he is chosen for the Ascension Ritual—a holy sacrifice promising an honorable death. However, the ritual is only the beginning. Kazuya wakes up beneath the clouds in a forbidden world of vibrant life. Faced with a reality that contradicts everything he was ever taught, he begins a journey to explore this new world while unraveling the dark mysteries of the world above that discarded him.