The signs were there. No one listened.

Fifty years ago, a child was born with a prophecy etched into his mind:

[The Ones Beyond seek the world and its Sparks.]

He was not alone.

Across the world, children followed—each carrying the same vision, each driven to madness by glimpses of a future no one believed in.

They screamed warnings. They were ignored. Locked away. Buried.

Then the world ended.

The planet trembled.
The galaxy convulsed.
The universe fractured.

Dimensional Gates tore open. Monsters emerged. Reality evolved.

Survival became a privilege.

 —

Uriel is a death row inmate, condemned for crimes that ensured the world would never mourn him.

On the night of his execution, a stranger appears—calm, composed, and impossibly out of place.

“I come from the future.”

And with him, a way out.

Not salvation. Not redemption.

A bargain.

Because no gift from fate comes without a cost.

“Let’s make a deal.”

[First Wood Star Echelon: Chains of Emerald]


The Wood aether Uriel had summoned earlier stirred and folded, forming a large-scale spell.


A sea of green vines erupted from the ground, rising rapidly to form chains that wrapped around the dragon above.


The dragon roared, but with vicious momentum, the vine chains wrapped around its body pulled and yanked it down from the skies.


The dragon crashed into the ground and before it could attempt to free itself—


[Third Light Star Echelon: Blade of Severance]


—a gigantic sword of light, as large as the dragon itself, appeared above it, slashing down to behead it. Alongside the blade, a surge of will followed, crushing the essence and will of the spiritual law into bits and pieces.


It died just as Uriel reappeared, a mere inch away from the shaken Spirit, still unable to believe its summoned dragon had been neutralised so easily.


Chapter 286 - Marginal Illusions