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To protect my family, I became a Devil.
To protect my people, I became a God.

In Semeria, the war for cultivation resources is as old as time and as constant as the rising and of the sun. Even in the Abandoned Region, where the energy was so poor and polluted that one wouldn’t send their worst enemy there, had endless conflicts for resources. Humans had been living in this nightmare made a reality, fighting over what anyone else on the continent would consider crumbs for millions of years.

Enter Xasha, husband, father, patriarch, Genius, artificer, creationist, and leader of the Falling Stardust Trading Company, who learns the truth of the world from three remnant souls he met on a journey. Having learned they had been living like frogs in a well. Humanity reluctantly united under Xasha’s rule and sets off. Determined to rise from their standing and one day ruling the entire continent.

Xasha soon realizes their strength, even combined, was the weakest on the continent. To become stronger, they needed better resources. But all the lands had landlords and all the resources had owners. He could not turn back, they could not give up. He had a person to elevate, a family to care for, and a daughter who had a powerful and mysterious entity eyeing her from afar, to protect.

In order to achieve any of his goals, any of humanity's goals. Those landlords had to die, their people had to be pillaged, and their lands had to be plundered. He inadvertently fell into the cycle. According to the Laws of cultivation.

Law of Cultivation:
To cultivate: acquire and retain resources.
To acquire resources: plunder and pillage.
To retain resources: Leave none Alive.

Falling Stardust

"How can you be so irresponsible? What if I'm a dishonorable person? What if I use my control over this world to lock you and everyone else out? Take this place for me and my people alone?" Xasha complained.

"I invite you to do so, should you see it fit," Ana said mischievously.

Xasha shook his head. Not sure how to deal with this woman.

"Thanks to the soul contract you introduced. Even if you had designs of this place you wouldn't be able to act on any of them," she proclaimed.

Xasha burst out laughing. He laughed at himself for forgetting such an obvious detail. Seems Ana was already one step ahead of him.

"Say, Ash. Should I decide to make this place an academy similar to what the Eight Clans created?" Ana gave a mischievous smile. "Would you be the leader of the said academy?"

Flames of The Way