Morning light hovered over this burgeoning city, and the orange-yellow lashes of the newly awakened sun had fallen upon the rooftops of the towering buildings.
The plane trees lining the roads quietly unfurled their soft, tender green palms, while the flowers in the central gardens seemed like infants bathed in night dew, blooming into beautiful smiles.
Before long, streams of people and vehicles surged, boiling and clamoring as a wave of scorching heat rose into the air.
Everything looked so beautiful and peaceful that newcomers would likely never imagine a world-class war had taken place here just one year ago.
There had not even been any land here before—only a vast ocean.
Elysia sat in a rest area by the street, holding a cup of milk tea as she gazed around her in high spirits.
This land had been expanded through the Holy Annihilation. Itogami Island was no longer the tiny isolated island it had once been; instead, it resembled a small continent, covered in towns of every size.
And this place belonged to Remilia's Night Empire!
Thinking back to that time, when the Skyfire in Kevin's hand had swept through every enemy, even the ocean itself had seemed to be split in two.
It was as though a god of destruction had unleashed its fury—utterly unstoppable. Only Itogami Island had remained unharmed, protected by Elysia and the power of the Holy Annihilation.
Naturally, the other enemies had not fared so well, especially the First Primogenitor, the Forgotten War King, who had been specifically targeted.
After Skyfire faded, the ocean barely regained its calm... but those enemies and their warships had vanished without a trace.
It was as if they had never been there at all. If not for the scorching heat Skyfire had left behind... one might have thought