The Starting Point

Knosus Emperor Star.

Sacred Courtyard.

A hazy pale-green halo radiated from the enormous green sun, casting half the entire Emperor Star in green.

On the surface of Emperor Star, atop Himan's Tooth, stood a small courtyard guarded by countless invisible force fields and hidden sentries.

This was the most sacred and supreme place in the entire Knossoss Empire—the Sacred Courtyard.

The head of the Blood God Family, the current Knososs Blood God Emperor—Saint Gulian Dongting—resided here year-round.

The courtyard was not large, covering only around a thousand square meters. For a Galaxy Emperor, it was pitifully small.

Yet every wall, roof, and floor tile within it had been forged from silver-gray high-grade metal.

Patterns flowing with faint green life-light wound across the floors and walls.

In the pale-green sky far away, an enormous mechanical whale slowly swayed its mechanical tail and drifted through the heavens.

Saint Gulian wore the magnificent dark-gold colony armor that never left his body. His chest was engraved with patterns of wheat stalks and thorns, while his arms bore interlocking mechanisms like fish scales.

Holding a dark-gold and silver trident, he gazed from afar at the giant whale drifting through the sky.

Saint Gulian wore a horned golden helmet, his face hidden in shadow.

No one had ever seen his true face. Even the princes and princesses did not know what he truly looked like.

Screech.

At the tip of the trident in his hand, a sphere made of metal blocks suddenly floated up.

The sphere was silver-white and egg-sized. A rainbow halo faintly surfaced around it as it continuously shifted and reassembled.

The sphere became a cube, then transformed into countless spiked metal blocks.

In merely a dozen seconds, it evolved through dozens of different forms.

"You should know that fate is like this crystal.