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

"Shush... this is no longer your territory. Mountain Master, do not act hastily and with rage..."


Just as the enormous crocodragon had pushed down the city gates and gazed into the city, its anger swelling, a weak voice came from above.


Between the two prominent, spiky scales on the crocodragon's forehead, there was a vague silhouette of a person, faintly breathing as if seated cross-legged atop a throne constructed of layers of beast flesh and blood.


But upon closer inspection, one could see that the so-called flesh throne was in fact the distorted and blurred lower half of a person, with crimson, twisted blood-flesh tendrils spreading out beneath the seat. These tendrils, formed from mutated blood vessels and nerves with the indistinct figure as their source, penetrated the crocodragon's skull, exchanging a deep purple fluorescent liquid back and forth.


Chapter 72 Key of the Sea