Dense corruption fumes poured from the countless chimneys, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, blanketing Sky City in gloom. The surface water had turned reddish-brown, highly poisonous while also corroding the surrounding land.
This was Verdant Shade Star, originally a lush, top-tier ninth-order world known as a kingdom of plants. Its natives were the Giant Spirit Tribe. They cherished nature and life, believed in the natural cycle of cause and effect, and firmly believed that only by protecting and nurturing the world they inhabited could they create a better future.
This had made the Giant Spirit Tribe one of the oldest races. Since the early days of the First Era of the Void, they had lived on Verdant Shade Star. It had originally been a ruined star, a second-order world that had nearly fallen to the first order during the early Second Order. As a result, this world had only one planet and lacked any fascinating, complex world structure.
In fact, Transcendent Primordial Worlds also had only one planet. The difference was that the planet of the Transcendent Realm was incomparably vast. Take the Witch Realm, for example. To this day, the Mage faction could only fully control the landmass known as the Mage Continent, which occupied roughly 6.5% of the entire Witch Realm. Even more expansive were its oceans, archipelagos, dark-spreading zones, and the Sky Cities where rare animals lived.
The Mage faction was unquestionably the face of the Witch Realm, however. Its rise and fall determined the fate of the Witch Realm. That unimaginably vast world contained far too many secrets and dangers, all of which the Mage faction kept suppressed.
Although the Calamity Legion had seemed to run rampant while invading the Witch Realm, that was only because the Mage faction had not shown