I'll Be Waiting for You at the End of the Stars, Gentlemen!

Sea Garden Era 1568, December 25.

This was the forty-sixth year since the birth of the Dark Dynasty. As the Sea Train network gradually expanded and the races integrated, Dawn City no longer needed to intervene so frequently in the annual celebrations. Beginning in the twentieth year, they had become a once-every-four-years event.

It was an utterly ordinary year.

Yet today was anything but peaceful for the sea, because the Dark Dynasty's ruler, the "Wise King" Lowett, was about to leave these waters.

A year ago, with the Soul Net spread across the entire planet, Lowett had finally elevated his pure soul to a realm he had never reached before.

Holy Ten!

In that instant, the entire planet—even the whole star system—could feel that incomparably immense aura. With the Soul Net and the Blood Prison Blade, Lowett's breakthrough had been far more spectacular than that of an ordinary Holy Ten. Likewise, despite little difference in realm after his breakthrough, he was far stronger than an ordinary Holy Ten.

[Law-Breaking Slash] remained his trump card.

As a spell born above the Dominator realm, created for the sole purpose of completely destroying a Law, even with Lowett suppressing its effects, its consumption was still plainly visible.

But techniques based on the three Twisted Laws of light and darkness giving birth to each other, Spirit-Flesh Conversion, and spatial distortion were no longer particularly draining abilities to him. Even without the Blood Prison Blade or Soul Net, he alone was enough to contend against around ten Ten Saints Venerable from the Mage World.

Like the Emperor, he possessed strength capable of crushing an entire era.

The Emperor, however, had already embarked upon the path of the Dominator at the time, with the Underworld as his support. Both his realm and foundations had been far