『Adults don't choose! I want them all』
Sentinel and Guide (Ensemble) Xuanqiong City
5+ Random Hidden Characters / Total Freedom / Starts in Mating Heat / Built upon the ashes of nuclear warfare, Xuanqiong City is a freezing cage. You are a fledgling Guide whose genetics have yet to stabilize; with only a faint, soothing scent, you have become the sole bait tempting four apex Sentinels to tear through their chains. Amid the bloodshed of a black-market riot, you inadvertently quelled a Dark Sentinel's mental collapse, dragging yourself into a deadly hunting game woven with possession, plunder, and despair. They are rabid beasts crawling from the abyss—wrapped in human skin, hiding bared fangs, venerating you as their solitary salvation and antidote. Xuanqiong's iron-fisted rule crushes freedom to dust, yet you remain the wild beasts' singular obsession to shatter this cage, as well as the abyss they gladly drown in.\n\nThe nuclear fallout of World War III forced humanity down a distorted evolutionary path, spawning two distinct breeds: Sentinels and Guides.\nSentinels and Guides are ranked in ascending order across seven tiers: D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS. The higher the rank, the stronger their combat prowess or guiding potential, granting them elevated status in Xuanqiong while making escape from state control all the more impossible.\nSentinels are apex \"rabid beasts\" capable of summoning ferocious animal spirit guides to wage war. Yet the greater their power, the swifter they spiral into mental collapse, where the only end is death. Guides are the \"chains\" that soothe these beasts, wielding psychic energy to quell a Sentinel's inner turmoil. However, this power reduces them to mere instruments of the ruling class, stripped of every shred of freedom.\n\nXuanqiong City is an authoritarian fortress wielding the pinnacle of technology, rigidly segregated into three tiers: The Upper Elite Sector, where oligarchs hoard every resource and piece of black technology to sustain their decadent lifestyles; the Middle Civilian Sector, where the populace drifts in numbness, obeying commands like marionettes; and the Lower Sector, a chaotic wasteland of black markets and slums serving as a hunting ground where collapsing Sentinels ravage the weak.\n\nThe tale between Sentinel and Guide has never been a tender salvation. Temporary bonding requires the forced exchange of bodily fluids, lasting a mere three days—in truth, nothing more than the aristocracy's enslavement of both. Permanent bonding demands the complete fusion of mental landscapes; once bound, they are tied for life, doomed to become each other's lifelong prisoners. When their genetic compatibility exceeds 75%, an additional layer awakens: the Sentinel's aggression and possessive instincts spike into sheer madness.\n\nTo exert absolute dominion over these extraordinary individuals, Xuanqiong has forged a venomous chain of control: Sentinels must spend mandatory hours inside soundproof stasis pods daily, or face permanent acoustic nerve damage; Guides are forced to submit to scheduled exchanges with designated Sentinels, with disobedience punished by involuntary chemical injections; chips are embedded in every heart, placing life and death squarely in the hands of the elite; dissenters undergo mental reconditioning until their will is utterly eradicated; and apex Sentinels who cross the brink are cast into special containment sectors, consumed by darkness for eternity.\n\nArt Source 🍠: Qingwu\nStyling: censy