Even though most people in this mortal world couldn’t see the world barrier that existed in the void beyond the sky before them, it didn’t stop them from looking up at the darkness as if they felt something the moment the Lord of Heaven broke through it.

Countless gazes converged, as if the entire planet opened its confused and helpless eyes towards the returning Lord of Heaven.

In an ordinary household, the husband came home early from work, and the wife was preparing dinner in the kitchen. The girl, who had just finished her homework, was leaning by the window, curiously looking at the dark sky. The calm voice of the news anchor came from the TV:

“This solar eclipse is the largest and longest-lasting special astronomical phenomenon in history. Please don’t worry or be anxious, citizens.”

“Just wait quietly at home for the solar eclipse to pass...”

The man turned off the TV. Although he didn’t believe the anchor’s words, it did make people feel much more at ease after hearing them. He also came to the window and subconsciously wanted to take a cigarette from his pocket... But realizing that his daughter was beside him, the man withdrew his hand awkwardly and coughed lightly.

Before he could speak, his daughter started the conversation. “I saw online that this solar eclipse... might be related to the spiritual energy revival?”

“Maybe after it’s over, I can also awaken superpowers!”

Just like in many anime and novels, after the red moon, extraordinary beings would be everywhere. Although it wasn’t a red moon now, didn’t a black sun sound even more impressive?

“Then what kind of superpower do you want to awaken?” The man smiled and asked his daughter curiously. Unlike his daughter, who was still full of longing and fantasy for the future, he, a middle-aged man, had experienced the hardships of society and had already given up on fantasies.

His only wish now was to maintain this ordinary life, watch his daughter grow up day by day, and enjoy his old age with his wife.

“I want to~ be Spider-Woman!”

“Eh, you can’t be Spider-Woman,” the man laughed. According to his impression, Spider-Man’s relatives were always in a high-risk occupation.

The daughter pouted and blinked. “Then... Batwoman!”

Pfft, this one was even more powerful.

“No!” The man couldn’t help it and refused seriously.

The little girl was a little dejected. Humph, strange adults. I can’t be this, I can’t be that.

“Then I won’t be a superhero, I’ll just make a simple wish.”

“I want the sky to be filled with sparkling stars again!”

“Otherwise, looking at the dark sky, my heart feels so uneasy and heavy-...” The little girl propped up her face pitifully.

The man touched her hair comfortingly. For a moment, neither of them spoke.

Suddenly, the little girl’s eyes lit up. She pointed her finger at somewhere far away on the horizon. “Dad! Dad, look!”

“Stars! Stars flying up from the ground!”

“My wish really came true!”

The man was speechless, as if he was so shocked by the scene in front of him that he couldn’t speak. It wasn’t until a long time later, looking at the countless “stars” that lit up the night sky again, that he replied with a trembling voice, “...I see it.”

He saw brilliant streams of light rising from the ground, piercing the dark sky. It wasn’t just him, the whole world, countless people saw it!

In different regions, different directions, but there were the same beams of light, lighting up in various parts of the world, rising straight into the sky, like a meteor shower falling from the ground to the sky.

That was countless powerful people of the Human Race, the Vampire Clan, and other Foreign Races, burning everything they had, rushing to the distant battlefield. He/They raised their rebellious fire towards the arrogant God, vowing to light up the sky!

From now on, if there was no torch in this world, he/they would be the only light.

..................

Exhausting the power of the entire world, all the strongest people emerged to fight against the old god. This was the scene born under this sky, destined to be recorded or to disappear forever in time and space. Its name was “When the Stars of Humanity Shine.”

But facing this situation, the indescribable phantom of the old god, the Lord of Heaven, remained indifferent. An indescribable sound wave fluctuated in outer space where there shouldn’t be any sound.

This was because God’s power could modify the rules of physics. Including the rules of physics themselves, which were just rules written by the Creation God at the beginning of time so that His creation, humans, could live in this world.

No one could understand that ancient language except Hell Queen Jormungandr and the fallen angels behind her. At this time, Hell Queen Jormungandr had already completed her transformation. She successfully rebuilt the so-called “Tower of Babel” using the genetic fragments left by the Creation God and ascended to become a god.

Or rather, she only recovered part of her peak strength. This was enough to allow her to be clear-headed and recall the glory she carried in the old days.

God created the world, and then created humans. And she and the Lord of Heaven, Yawei, were the first pair of “humans” created by the Creation God. It could also be said that they were the two daughters of the Creation God, the ancestors of humanity.

However, as the ancestors of humanity, they abandoned the name of “human” given to them by their mother, the Creation God, and greedily reached for the crown called “God.”

Jormungandr was the instigated loser. She, along with those sinful races who deviated from the path of “humanity,” were exiled to the prison called hell.

Yawei was the schemer behind the scenes. Good at disguises, she not only deceived Jormungandr, but also deceived the Creation God, successfully stealing the authority of God and becoming the final winner.

The era of her rule arrived, and the Creation God disappeared without a trace. Jormungandr always believed... that Yawei killed God. For this reason, she led her army back from hell more than once, but was defeated by Yawei again and again. That’s why her strength had regressed again and again.

Actually, Yawei had countless ways and countless opportunities to kill Jormungandr, but He didn’t do so, as if to keep Jormungandr and humiliate her again and again. You, the Hell Queen, what makes you think you are qualified to compete with me for Mother Creation God?

Including those fallen angels later, Lucifer, Shila, and the others... It was as if Yawei had deliberately let them go, because compared to dying in battle, it was the survivors who had to endure more pain. Yawei wanted them to spend the rest of their lives in pain and regret. As for whether the Lord of Heaven, Yawei, had ever thought that she would be jointly resisted by them today, perhaps she had.

But just like the message she conveyed in the unknown ancient language, “She said—ants,” Jormungandr translated coldly. The Lord of Heaven didn’t care, didn’t care about the resistance of this world, didn’t care who resisted. Beneath God, all were ants.

Hearing this, Black Emperor Ying Zhou’s cold eyes reflected the indescribable figure in the void. What indescribable, she would see clearly today!

So, with the blessing of the divine power after ascending, Ying Zhou’s eyes saw through the illusion and finally saw the existence behind the scenes. It was... a woman, a woman so beautiful that people would suspect that she was the fundamental concept of “beauty.”

Wearing a veil woven from etheric light, her body was naked, but there were strange and sacred patterns covering the woman’s full and curvaceous, divine body. Ying Zhou’s eyes almost cracked, and scarlet divine blood flowed from the cracks. This made her look scary and even more pitiful.

Even as a god who had successfully ascended, Black Emperor Ying Zhou... compared with the Lord of Heaven, the former ruler and god, she was still too far, too far behind. Just by trying to see the appearance of the Lord of Heaven, she had paid the price of blood.

But in fact, this was already a silent confrontation. Although Ying Zhou was defeated, she also broke through the first layer of the Lord of Heaven Yawei’s fundamental defense, exposing her true body in front of all the strongest.

Otherwise, all attacks on her would be erased at the conceptual level, because under the protection of that indescribable veil, the Lord of Heaven Yawei could almost be said to be untargetable and unattackable. The holiness and uniqueness of God lay here. The authority of this world could only be held by one person.

So from this perspective, even though Black Emperor Ying Zhou suffered a heavy loss, it wasn’t entirely without gain. More importantly, as the True Ancestor who created the Vampire Clan, and also an emperor in human history, Ying Zhou was not willing to be surpassed by any god.

Her arrogance had always been consistent from ancient times to the present. The Lord of Heaven also finally turned her gaze to the Black Emperor Ying Zhou, this... slightly more active ant.

Then she extended her hand, which was made of pure light and as white as jade, and pressed it down towards where the Black Emperor was. The Lord of Heaven’s speed seemed so slow. Everyone could clearly see the trajectory of her waving hand.

But when she made a move, it meant that it had already happened. This attack was engraved on the only timeline of this world, leaving an indelible mark. No one could resist, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t stop it from falling.

Black Emperor Ying Zhou stood tall and graceful, floating in the void, looking very calm. She wasn’t afraid of this attack from the Lord of Heaven, just faintly said, “Back off.” Then she decided to bear all of this alone, using her own power to cut off the causal relationship between others and herself.

Elf True Ancestor Lislotte looked at her palm blankly. A light golden mark was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye. When... did it appear on her? This imprint from the Black Emperor Ying Zhou? It was also the protective rune she left on her.

It had never appeared until today, when its owner personally cut it off. It turned out that her past insistence that she didn’t believe that the Black Emperor would fall was not, as others said, “unwilling to accept reality,” but because Ying Zhou... this bastard, even deceived her.

It was precisely because of this protective imprint she gave her that she sensed it and always firmly believed that she must still be alive... living somewhere in this world, or another world. Everyone’s fate was countless intertwined threads. And the Black Emperor Ying Zhou had arbitrarily wrapped one of her threads around Elf True Ancestor Lislotte because she always couldn’t let go of this stubborn elf girl.

Forgive me, my love cannot be given only to you. But I will always love you, Lislotte. Whether in the past or the future, this time and space, or another world. I swear by this mark, and will never break it.

But now—she took the initiative to break this oath, pulling that thread of fate from Lislotte’s thread of fate. From now on, the two would be like stars in different constellations, never to meet again.

Lislotte looked up with tears streaming down her face. In the depths of the distant starry sky, the figure of the silver-haired woman facing the vast divine might was slender and fragile, but it gradually overlapped with a tall figure in the Elf True Ancestor’s memory.

How she wished... he/she could turn around and look at her again. Perhaps then, she wouldn’t have left in anger.

Why were you always like this...! Always... thinking that you could solve everything alone! But you didn’t understand... I was more afraid of... losing you than bearing that divine power.

There was once a long-lived species. She said that she would never fall in love with a short-lived species because she didn’t want to spend the rest of her life in sadness and grief. But later, she broke her promise.

Now, was this the moment when this fate came true...?

“Boom!!”

The boundless divine might flooded the Black Emperor Ying Zhou’s figure like a flood.

“No!!” Lislotte cried out, rushing towards her desperately, but was stopped by another force.

The Philosopher King calmly raised her hand and froze the space around Lislotte. At the same time, without any mental communication, she and the Hell Queen simultaneously unleashed their power, joining the torrent of fate that the Black Emperor Ying Zhou was supposed to bear alone.

The three gods of the new era joined forces to barely resist the first wave of the Lord of Heaven, Yawei’s, attack. The endless power dissipated.

Under the dark starry sky, the Black Emperor Ying Zhou’s clothes were torn, and her silver hair was disheveled. It seemed... she really went all out. She chuckled and wiped the divine blood from the corner of her lips, still looking directly at the old god, a golden flame that even the flood of world destruction couldn’t extinguish burning ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) in her eyes.

“Do you know...”

“In our world, what is the end of those gods who try to control the fate of mankind!” The woman raised her head and shouted angrily, raising the king’s sword towards the arrogant god!