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

As a child, the boy was always left at home in the Imperial Capital, cared for by his grandmother, while his mother followed his father to the front lines, not to return for a long time.


What exactly his father was doing, the boy did not know, nor did he understand, but every time his father returned, he was covered in scars, so severely injured that he needed professional doctors and Sublimators to save him.


And his mother was always by his side, sometimes injured herself, sometimes even more seriously than his father.


As a child, he could never understand; he would cry, he would beg his parents not to leave him behind, not remembering what the 'homeland' his father always mentioned actually was.


He only knew that every time his father tried to reclaim their homeland, he would draw closer to death.


They would draw closer to a permanent farewell.


Chapter 333: Hometown, Friends and the Future (3/3)