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 image of Leyan Territory within the Domain of Void turned out to be a piece of ancient ruins, rather than a planting basin in the mountains.


And the ancientness of these ruins was not even from the time when the Mountain People worshipped the Dragon God.


The towering cement ruins, formed by the collapse of buildings hundreds of meters tall, loomed like small mountains, while solemn statues lay toppled aside, the flickering stars in the night sky of the Domain of Void cast down patches of pale blue light, shining upon the ruins.


When Ian immersed himself into the Domain of Void, this was the scene he beheld—a likely city center relic from a pre-epoch civilization, but not entirely so, because a little further away lay vast dense jungles, the lush forests of South Ridge enveloping the ancient ruins, with the star and moonlight blurring the eras.


Chapter 10: The Evolution of the Silver Chip