A suffocating silence instantly spread across the entire world.
In the long stillness, even the sound of dripping water could be heard clearly.
The World of Ferland.
All the Transcendent Knights gripped their weapons tightly, waiting for the response of the other towering being beyond the vast maw outside their world.
Though they could not see what lay beyond the rift in the sky, they all knew who the other person in that confrontation was.
His mount of countless years had been slain, and someone had even punched through the barrier between the world and the Star Realm.
Such a situation could only mean that Knight King Ferland had been defeated in the Star Realm, allowing his opponent to strike at his very lair.
On the Ferland Continent.
In cities, inside manors, atop fortified strongholds, aboard great ships, and within Starships.
Countless Transcendent Knights wore pale faces and heavy hearts.
It had always been they, the Knights of Ferland, who ranged across the vast cosmos. They were walking calamities, World-Destroying Radiant Stars, under the leadership of Knight King Ferland.
They had shattered world after world and conquered civilization after civilization.
They seized boundless resources, turning them into sustenance for nurturing Transcendent Knights. Countless living beings became subjects under their rule, farming and producing for them, strengthening this glorious Knight civilization step by step.
But.
They had never imagined that one day, such a fate would fall upon their own heads.
Just as they were seeing now.
Powerful, unknown enemies from far beyond their world had descended upon their homeworld. Even the great Knight King Ferland could not stop them and now faced defeat.
Without a word, they gazed at the enormous golden rift in the sky, at the thousands of Sky Cities beneath it that blotted out heaven and earth,