He was scared.

To think he would be leaving this world and crossing over.

"Perhaps, after the Crown rank is where the First Sequence is."

He didn’t know what the First Sequence entailed. But he would know once he crossed over.

He swallowed his fear and steadied his heart.

He turned to the man.

"I will come back. For my friends. Keep them safe for me."

Frieza nodded. "I’ve used a bit of my power to push your combat score to the peak."

"The crossing is dangerous if you don’t have anything to protect you."

"Then what about Mia?" Caelus asked. "Did she also leave?"

"She did." Frieza appeared thoughtful. "It seems she was more special than I first thought."

"When I sent Sylvia and Lyra out, she followed Lyra. A light was connected to her."

"I believe it is the power of the Divine God of Boundless Light."

Hearing this, Caelus’s heart stirred. It was the same name tied to the divine halo.

Then Frieza’s expression turned grim.

"Not good. The Watcher is back, I believe. You need to leave fast."

"I don’t know whether the other Enders have left this place or not. But the fact that he was absent until now most likely means they did."

"But if they get reset here, what about the Ender’s War?" Caelus asked.

"That’s the thing." Frieza explained hurriedly. "We, the Ender of Origin, are different from the others."

"If they get reset, then that’s that."

"Our original purpose was to balance out the six Enders."

"But who knows what happened. In the end, we also ended up here."

He waved his hand.

"The chances are all of them escaped because of my influence."

"I don’t know what sort of miracles you’ll bring forth, Caelus Kross. But remember."

"You must become the strongest and find our predecessor."

"He’s not dead."

"What?!" Caelus was stunned by the final words.

But his vision soon turned black as he arrived back at the place.

The purple miasma was rushing in.

There were signs of battle everywhere. Only Ken and Hao Shu were left.

Caelus looked at them coldly.

His form transformed into that of a majestic dragon.

Scales of black and gold spread across his body as his eyes lit with cold light.

The two wore stunned looks.

But before they could say a word, their insignificant lives were extinguished.

Boom!

He looked at the portal, then down at his own body.

It was brimming with vitality. His Crown was brimming with power too.

He had to break his Crown down.

But before that... he looked at his vitality fusion stone.

This was the anchor.

This was what would help him break free from this world.

He used it without hesitation.

The purple miasma kept rushing in. Caelus understood that if he was a second too late, he would never break through.

The chaos rings, his divine halo, his Crown, everything began melting into the vitality fusion stone.

All the power he had gathered throughout his journey was swept into the stone.

Piece by piece, the power he had bled for left his body. It all poured into a single point.

[Ding! You are fusing your vitality.]

[You are generating vitality that surpasses the essence of the world.]

[You have achieved First Sequence vitality!]

Caelus reached the vitality required for the crossing.

His whole body trembled as the new power settled into his bones.

[Ding! The power of the abyss is weakening your vitality.]

[It fell back.]

Caelus gritted his teeth seeing this.

That was when he remembered his power as the Ender of Origin.

"Temporal Regression."

[Ding! You’ve reached the First Sequence vitality.]

Caelus immediately swept his wings, shooting straight toward the southern gate.

The southern gate would close soon.

From the corner of his vision, he saw a tide of darkspawn and a skeletal being in a cape rushing toward him.

He knew this was the Watcher, unleashing its power to stop him.

A cold voice scraped against his skull.

"Erase the Ender."

Once he touched the gate, his power had to be at the First Sequence or he would die.

He had to time it precisely.

It was either death inside the southern gate because his vitality was not up to par, or death to the purple miasma.

Caelus’s eyes burned.

[Ding! Your vitality is being weakened.]

His power fell once more.

He used Temporal Regression on himself again.

It climbed back to the peak.

But a swarm of darkspawn rushed in, trying to stop him.

Caelus swept his claw forward, activating Origin Sever.

He felt a power buffing him. He understood it was Frieza.

Origin Sever crushed myriad darkspawn in an instant.

Crack!

With that, he took one leap and arrived right beside the southern gate.

The power of the abyss pressed down on him even harder.

Caelus’s heart went cold. If he had taken that step a moment too soon, he would have died.

At the same time, the Watcher unleashed an attack as more darkspawn sprang up.

Caelus turned to face them.

The horns above his head glowed with runic light as he softly uttered.

"Volcra."

A beam of destruction charged from the horns and shot toward them, spreading explosions across a massive scale.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

This was his last Volcra in this world.

Caelus did not hesitate.

His figure shot into the portal.

It covered him in its entirety.

A feeling of calm enveloped him as his vision fully turned white.

The last thing he saw was the face of the Watcher.

Whrmm!

His vision began to distort.

His dragon body disappeared, and he reappeared in his human form.

Then a message appeared in his vision.

[Congratulations on breaking past the abyss.]

[The Origin Ascension Domain opens its gates to you.]

[Good luck, Ender.]

His vision fluttered as the Origin Ascension Domain’s power surged into his being.

It brought forth cellular and dimensional changes within his body and his soul.

The next moment, he slowly opened his eyes.

They widened further when he saw the place he was in.

- Vol End -