Scarlet Descent猩红降临

Scarlet Descent — or as I call it, "Demonology for the Emotionally Unstable" — begins with the world already shattered. Seventy years ago, some mysterious calamity rolled in, flipped the cosmic chessboard, and humans promptly lost their collective minds. Demons didn’t just crawl out of the shadows—they burst from emotions themselves. Yes, even your petty grudge could now spawn a reality-warping abomination.

The twelve sacred gods? Demoted. Now just demonic sequences people treat like cursed trading cards. And then there’s the thirteenth—Scarlet. No fanfare. No divine lineage. Just Wei Wei: orphan, half-mad, potentially allergic to sanity, and proud wielder of sequence zero-nonsense.

Wei Wei our protag returns to Scrap Iron City, a charming little slum at the edge of humanity’s last magic bubble, where cultists sip blood like wine and sanity goes to die. He’s not cold, but he’s not right either. He bluffs, schemes, smiles in the dark, and might just talk a demon into therapy—or kill it mid-sentence. Depends on the mood.

The novel doesn’t meander. No 300-chapter tea parties. No 50-volume alchemy midterms. It punches straight ahead with action, grit, and just enough weirdness to keep your inner conspiracy theorist fed. Humor sneaks in like a beggar with a dagger, and character interactions actually matter.

So no, this ain’t your usual "teen finds sword, gains harem, ascends with plot armor" tale. This is more like, "teen finds chaos, gains paranoia, fakes confidence, and maybe becomes the 13th Apostle of Something Vaguely Terrifying."

If you're tired of being spiritually catfished by titles promising greatness only to hand you filler arcs and mood swings, Scarlet Descent is a fine detox.

From one wanderer to another—give madness a chance.

— InkDrunk Wanderer,
Transient of the Scarlet Sequence,
Disrespector of Generic Plot Armor

Another one left to rot in the bookmarks chamber until it hits 100+ chapters

It's about a madman with strong abilities, though not too OP, in a world rather similar to LOTM. A few things are different, but basically Gehrman Sparrow from LOTM but the plot is a bit weaker. Still interesting, but nowhere near Peak. I'd say it's interesting and engaging, but hardly more than that.
Rating: About 6-7/10.

Honestly if we were up against demons that could control the element in their moniker, we would be cooked

Interesting but need poison testers and I will not be the one to test this

Median , Rank C

How do you make holy water? Boil the hell out of it