Gloomy Sky Hidden God

The first star that passed away extinguished two thousand years ago.
Four hundred years later, the mysterious Calamity of Heavenly Fall destroyed the civilization of the previous era, returning thriving cultures to ignorance.
Since then, stars gradually vanished, the Firmament grew dark and dim, and a new civilization rose from the starless wilderness, flourishing once more.
Yet, what accompanied this were war, death, destruction, and hatred.
The flames once aimed at the Firmament were used to slaughter the people of enemy nations, and the raining clouds once engineered to alter deserts were turned into floods that engulfed the land.
Humans once again began to kill each other for wealth and power... but no one looked up at the sky.
They lost the Guidance of the stars Above the Sky, forgetting the awe of gazing upon the Milky Way.
They were all prisoners.
One thousand six hundred years after the Calamity of Heavenly Fall, a young child awakened memories of his past life.
He wanted to break the Cage, to throw off the shackles.
He wanted to become a star.
To return to Above the Sky.
"I don't care about how the people of this world live, whether they're well-fed or not, whether they can dress warmly or live comfortably, whether they have dreams or hopes. I don't care about their loves and hates."
"I just want to go Above the Sky."
——Ian.

Above The Sky

The Bison Mountain Range, at the edge of the Yongji and Pengpai Oceans, stretched nearly a thousand kilometers from the northwest to the south, with a treacherous depression in its midpoint—a canyon torn from the earth's movements during the Calamity of Heavenly Fall, and also the source of the Ivoke River.


Clouds often shrouded the towering peaks of the coastal mountain range, and towering Redwood trees blanketed the opening of the canyon below, blocking out the sunlight much like wooden mountains.


There lay a somewhat dilapidated port city, surrounded by numerous natural defenses.


Located at the foot of the mountains, beside the sea, the river, and the canyon, Harrison Port was the southernmost human settlement in the civilized world.


Chapter 33 Picking Up Leftovers