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

Even if the olive branch comes with bone-corroding venom.


When famine spread and panic boiled over in South Ridge, the rebellion of the Mountain People followed suit, as they shook off the shackles the Empire had imposed upon them... but life became even worse.


Food distribution, economic collapse, though it sounds counterintuitive, ever since Agate Stone Plains were developed by the Empire into productive lands, the population of the Mountain People had been steadily increasing.


Over two hundred years, the population of the Mountain People had tripled compared to the old days. The significance behind this fact isn't important; it represents a simple truth: the Mountain People were no longer able to be self-sufficient.


Unless they wanted the vast majority to starve to death.


The Empire had bound most of the rational Mountain chieftains with food, while the crazed others believed that Fiery Flame Land could provide another answer.


Chapter 57: The Public's Trust Can Be Utilized (6900)_2