Above The Sky-Chapter 1892 - 391: Even Light Can Bleed

The entire world was shaking from the battle at the Imperial Center.

All Fifth-Level Powers who still had some strength left turned their heads, looking towards the direction of The Empire.

[Why are these two fighting?]

[Father-son conflict? Rebellion? Coup? Or is it an all-out sparring?]

[A bait? These two guys, although fighting with all their might, show no hostility... Are they fighting intensely with clear minds, without a shred of hatred or anger towards each other?]

[The Lineage of the Solar Deity Bird indeed has many lunatics]

[The Calamity of Light amplified these two guys, their strength increased significantly...]

Despite many gazes gathering, due to the amplification of the Lineage of the Solar Deity Bird’s power from the Calamity of Light, and the invasion on the gathering places of Terra Confederation, all the curious and even tempted Fifth-Level Powers knew that now was not the right opportunity.

Not to mention, in this Great Disaster, the Four Great Orthodox Churches and Dragon Island would not allow the Terra Confederation to start a massive war, even without external interference, there is no force on Terra Continent right now that can deploy a free Fifth-Level Power to intervene.

The internal strife of Azure Sky Royal Court, the consolidation of Canaan Moore, the forced retreat in Fiery Flame Land, the chaos in Seven Cities Alliance, and the suppressed Steep Ridge Fortress... All nations close to The Empire have coincidentally encountered internal conflicts, making it difficult to exert strength externally.

In the current situation with the Four Great Orthodox Churches and Dragon Island keeping watch, the only ones who can interfere in the battle between the two Solar Birds are the Imperial People themselves.

Within The Empire.

Two wills focus on the Imperial Capital.

[This is awful now, my oath of loyalty is toward the Setar Imperial Family, but if they fight internally, I cannot step in to mediate!]

A lazy yet clear and powerful voice, like the most standard ’Formal Speech’ of humans, sounded: [What should we do, General, do you have a solution?]

[No. I’m just like you, my loyalty is to The Empire, but I cannot intervene in their royal family feud]

A crisp but somewhat unavoidably aged voice sounded, tone calm, with a hint of subtle helplessness: [In my opinion, it’s best for us not to get involved]

[Let the war between the Solar Birds be decided by themselves, whoever wins, shall be our Lord]

[Who would have thought there would be two Solar Birds] The clear voice said: [Indeed, it’s a family issue of the Lord, a father fighting his son, we outsiders truly shouldn’t intervene]

Finally, the aged voice made a decision: [You monitor the east, I’ll monitor the west, to prevent any outsiders from meddling, let’s be worth the pay we receive]

[Let everything else be resolved internally by them]

The royal family.

Under the light rays emitted by the collision of two suns, there are also two rays approaching the Imperial Capital. But just like Michael and Axel, Carlos’s light is blocking Alegria’s.

[Carlos! Why are you stopping me?]

The furious female will exploded like a solar flare, sending out waves of all-destroying light, while a hazy figure of light firmly blocked her path: [Need you ask? My answer is no. It’s a duel between father and Michael, I won’t let you interfere]

[No interference?] The female will sternly retorted, her rage and desire for destruction continuously rising: [Everything about The Empire is flourishing, why are you helping Carlos obstruct father’s endeavor!]

[Michael achieving Fifth Level Energy, isn’t it a sign of the resurgence of Setar Empire? Why would he duel with father... why become enemies with The Empire!]

[Leia] Carlos calmly replied: [Don’t you know how long father has been waiting for this day? Empire’s resurgence... at what time? Are we still wanting to play the Empire conquest game?]

[For over a thousand years, we’ve grown tired of it. Not only us, all Fifth-Level Powers, all strong Sublimators, are weary of the game between the ruler and the subjects... Everyone in Terra, whether powerful or not, Sublimator or not, is awaiting the arrival of a new world]

[The Arcane Pathway has opened the prelude to this new world, so father no longer needs to wait, and brother has responded to father’s expectations]

As such, Carlos said word by word with a deep voice: [We, were slow! We lost!]

[Against all odds, losers should not dare to compete with the suns!]

[However!]

Alegria raised her head, unwillingly gazing at the Imperial Center, then furrowed her brow: [Isn’t there someone else?]

[Why is there someone else daring to intrude their battlefield?]

[What?]

Carlos too turned around in shock, looking towards the sky in the direction of the Imperial Capital.

Thus, they saw.

A black sun pierced through the silence, azure-golden flames blazing around it, igniting much of the Firmament.

Everyone, not just Carlos and Alegria, everyone watching The Empire’s direction, even the two Solar Birds in combat turned their gaze, with eyes reflecting that burning sky and the black star at its center.

[Black Sun?!]

[No... This is The Unyielding Fortress!]

The violent wind, like a tide, swept through most of The Empire, and the endless flames roared across the firmament like a raging ocean. Those unaware of its principles would be astounded by the overwhelming light tide brought about by this mystical phenomenon, but true powerhouses could notice the unfathomable force contained within the black Aether core, wrapped in intertwined, distorted space-time.

At this moment, Michael’s light and Axel’s light clashed and overlapped. The Sunbird, driven by the Dragon Power of Heavenly Law, was no longer merely the ruler of heat and scorching light. Its existence was about the vibrant vitality of Heavenly Law’s myriad manifestations. Countless rays of light transformed according to Michael’s will into giant hands, vines, swords, and other illusions, crashing towards Axel.

Yet, Axel’s power was incomparably pure—it was simple overwriting and erasure. All of Michael’s illusions and will constructs disintegrated and vanished upon nearing, like being wiped away by an eraser, leaving only vague outlines before disappearing altogether.

Between the two lay a constantly shifting and stretching pure white dividing line. In the center of this line was a pure Aether zone created by the collision and annihilation of their differing lights and Aether, distorting and rippling space-time, tearing open voids.

[For someone just entering the Fifth Energy Level, you’re quite impressive.] In this confrontation, Axel held the advantage. His domain constantly pressured Michael back with endless light, and the Emperor’s voice rang out from the tidal wave of light: [You’ve grasped the true core of the Master Throne, the immortal nature. You’ve even managed to harness parts of past and future powers to oppose me.]

His voice held no trace of anger at his child defying him but rather a tint of joy and comfort: [I’m pleased you are well-prepared to confront me and not acting impulsively.]

He raised his hand, the humanoid silhouette with wings on its back and three halos around its head gave a muffled groan, as a crack appeared on Michael’s Aether True Body... no, perhaps it wasn’t a crack. The azure Dragon Power of Heavenly Law turned into patterns manifested on Michael’s body: [You even prepared to counter my use of the Calamity of Light and the power of the Imperial Capital, finding the strength of the Ancestral True Dragon—that’s indeed an enormous legacy, one of the mightiest at the Fifth Energy Level.]

[But unfortunately, you understand the Sunbird well, but not the True Dragon.]

Behind Axel, a luminous wheel partially obscured by layers of radiant wings faintly emerged, and this wheel bore densely packed golden eye-pupils.

Each eye-pupil gazed in a different direction, emitting endless light, just like the sun, selflessly releasing its power.

Compared to Michael’s humanoid form with wings, Axel’s Aether True Body of the Sunbird bore no human features. Countless flowing, spinning pupils observed everything in the world, devoid of selfishness, merely with half its power suppressing his child.

Thus, he noticed the black sun earlier than Michael.

[So, you came here not to seek death, but to intend to defeat me... besides your trump card, you have an ally.]

Axel stared at the black sun, myriad thoughts racing through his mind, just as he always permitted; the expelled Unyielding Fortress finally returned, with strength greater than he anticipated.

Yet this Unyielding Fortress seemed somewhat different from how he remembered?

No matter.

Axel raised one of his wings, his wing like light vanished, his wing like a blade, converted to light and slashed down.

A straight, searing light trace tore through everything, branding a bright scar in space as it directly slashed at the black sun, igniting thunderclaps in the atmosphere along the way, burning out a vacuum.

However, as this straight light blade slashed at the black sun, it abruptly twisted into an arc; the distorted space-time and gravity caused it to deviate for a moment and then slant onto the earth below.

Boom!

With the slash of the light blade, a massive area on the ground, at least several continuous mountain ranges, melted away, the terrifying heat and intensely penetrating radiation dissolved and vaporized everything, the explosion’s roiling shockwave blowing all nearby trees away, the remnants rapidly carbonizing, burning out, turning to ash.

But Axel’s expression slightly changed.

The previous strike seemed to miss, but it actually hit— the light blade wasn’t merely light but a space-time distorted Aether field. That The Unyielding Fortress could distort light with strong gravity to counter the Sunbird was something he naturally knew, but the Sunbird naturally had its methods to counter The Unyielding Fortress.

But...

Axel raised the wing he had used to strike, and black cracks were spreading on this light wing, with points of light flame leaking out, dripping as if it were blood.

At the moment of hitting the opponent, he had already encountered the opponent’s counterattack. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

And the opponent’s counterattack speed was also at the speed of light.

Interesting.

Narrowing his eyes, Axel smiled. Even predicting the Sunbird’s attack and preparing to fight to the death during mutual attacks, the Sunbird rarely truly got counterattacked because their speed was too fast, often knowing but unable to ’counterattack.’

Yet the defense and counterattack on Mahdi had left him unresponsive.

What in this world could be as fast as light?

Naturally, it was gravitational waves!

At this moment, Ian traveling at curvature navigation surrounded by hundreds of layers of space-time folds, formed a massive space-time bubble, which contained an extremely terrifying yet stable gravitational field. Enhanced by Aether, the gravitational field capable of bending light in a small area even formed a simulated Black Domain, rotating swiftly to achieve a perfect balance.

In this scenario, any force attack would cause the entire gravitational field to erupt, counterattacking the aggressor.

Even if the attack was light, a terrifying gravitational field capable of compressing an entire mountain range to a pinpoint could cause an extremely terrifying counterattack instantaneously.

"It seems that nothing in this world is eternal."

In a flash, three suns already hung in the firmament.

And behind the black field, a youthful voice rang out, sonorous and forceful: "Look."

"Even light can bleed."