In the Heaven Realm, angels reigned supreme.
The royal ancestors of their Kingdom of Ilondwein had once followed Her Crown, Seraph Yuxia.
According to the Ancestral Records, when Her Crown, Seraph Yuxia, ascended to epic rank, she had bestowed gifts upon the thirty-three legendary powerhouses who followed her.
Seven became rulers of kingdoms, fifteen became governors of worlds, and the remaining eleven chose to remain at Her Crown's side.
In the Heaven Realm, beings who were not angels had opportunities to obtain enough resources to grow stronger, but doing so was exceedingly difficult.
Thus, most beings in the Heaven Realm chose to follow angels and fight for them.
As the ruling race, angels held absolute authority and control over the distribution of resources in the Heaven Realm. With countless planar worlds and Planet Worlds sustaining them, the wealth of resources they possessed was unimaginable.
The nations on land certainly had more transcendent resources than the kingdoms in Reality Space, but all of that came at a price.
When a great war arrived, their duty as nations was to conscript troops within designated regions and carry out the will of a particular being.
Under conscription, everyone who met the requirements had to answer the call, whether royalty, descendants of the nobility, wealthy merchants, or commoners.
The Kingdom of Ilondwein had stood for over eight thousand years. Throughout that long history, it had answered eight summons, sending over a million troops each time, for a total of roughly thirteen million.
Of those eight expeditionary wars, five had been fought to conquer worlds, two against the Abyss, and one to defend a world.
After each war, fewer than one in a hundred returned.
His two older brothers and one older sister had died in the war against the Abyss three hundred years ago.