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.

Ian perceived the myriad information flowing within the Aether of the Ashen King. For an ordinary Sublimator, it would be impossible to discern comprehensible patterns from an opponent's Aether.


But he was a Prophet and also the founder of the Arcane Pathway. With the blessing of the Heart of Terra, his computational abilities had reached an incredible level, allowing him to directly penetrate the flow of Aether and "see" its essence beyond space-time.


Moreover, the Ashen King himself was burning his heart and soul intensely, allowing Ian to directly read his most fervent desires from his fists, his light, and his flames and ashes.


Besides battling against himself, the Ashen King's true plan in the past was "Flame Reincarnation."


The azure radiance flickered, and the Foresight View traversed the reversed space-time, seeing everything.


Chapter 2003 - Chapter 22: Flame Reincarnation