Sovereign of the Ashes

Chapter 651: Green Sun

After emerging from Lorianne’s magic tower, Sein stepped onto the dry, gray land.

Gazing at the greenish planet hanging in the starry sky nearby, he sighed. “A microplane inaccessible to creatures of Rank Four and above, huh?”

***

The Divine Tower of Verdant Spring launched its attack with swift precision.

Three days later, Lorianne appeared outside the Verdant Leaf World, fully prepared with a verdant green magic rod in her clutch.

Sein recalled seeing it during the Viridian Venom Flame World War, where his mentor had wielded it against a Neisse Civilization’s Rank Four construct and had used it to cast a forbidden spell.

At this moment, Lorianne in the starry sky obviously had no intention of unleashing a forbidden spell.

Plundering the plane’s riches was better than annihilating a world.

A complex and lengthy incantation flowed from Lorianne’s lips.

Sein could not discern the tone or the words clearly, but he knew Lorianne was not merely reciting; she was rearranging and reorganizing the elemental energy before her in the starry expanse through a special method!

The mages of Magus World were masters of elemental energy manipulation. It was only natural for those of Rank Four and above to showcase skill far beyond the reach of ordinary, lower-ranking mages.

Admist Lorianne’s incantation, a green vortex slowly materialized in the starry sky.

Verdant, cone-shaped spikes began to emerge from within the swirling mass.

The rich dendro elemental energies in the vicinity suggested that employing dendro elemental spells now would be extremely effective.

Lorianne hovered in the sky until she directed her magic rod toward Verdant Leaf World.

***

Today was an unimaginable day for the creatures of Verdant Leaf World, one that would be remembered for years to come.

At some point, a green sun had appeared in the originally blue sky, symbolizing both absurdity and an ominous presence.

Most creatures of Verdant Leaf World, capable of judgment and thought, sensed danger in this anomaly.

This microplane had existed peacefully for thousands of years, a haven where plant life and a diverse array of insect creatures had long been free from overt conflict.

The last time Verdant Leaf World experienced a war that swept across the plane was millennia ago.

During this conflict, the Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly Clan defeated several other insect races, which constituted a large portion of its native inhabitants, and asserted dominance.

After the war, the microplane was renamed to Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly World.

However, this last conflict, known as the “War of Planar Unification”, was orchestrated by the guardian and did not bring severe devastation to Verdant Leaf World.

The casualties were few, primarily among the impacted insect clans.

Considering the unity that followed the planar unification, that war was ultimately beneficial for the overall development of Verdant Leaf World.

The generally short lifespans of creatures in the microplane caused many to forget the details of that war.

Perhaps some of the longer-lived plant creatures still remembered the great war, but it primarily involved the insect races and had little to do with them, the ancient beings evolved from plants.

The appearance of the green sun immediately instilled a sense of crisis among nearly all of Verdant Leaf World’s native creatures.

Yet, in the face of this imminent threat, confusion prevailed.

Despite feeling the weight of uncertainty and oppression, they were unsure of the green sun’s origin or what action to take.

A few bold insect creatures attempted to ascend into the sky to investigate.

However, due to their low energy levels, most could only reach a few hundred meters, perhaps a thousand at most above the ground.

The more capable among the insect creatures managed to ascend several thousand meters, but even they could not penetrate the planar barrier, nor could they ascertain what lay beyond their world.

In the Astral Realm, civilization and planar development were typically categorized as micro, low-level, medium-sized, large-sized, and top-tier.

The strongest bings born in microplanes peak at Rank Three, with no entities above Rank Four classified as “gods”.

The planar laws and environmental capacity were relatively fragile, unable to support creatures of higher ranks.

Another distinction between microplanes and low-level planes was that inhabitants of microplanes lacked a systematic and fundamental understanding of the Astral Realm.

Rarely venturing beyond their homeplane, they remain unaware of the boundless and magnificent nature of the Astral Realm, believing their limited world to be the entirety of existence.

They held the belief that their world was flat and the sky a hemisphere. Only a select few were aware that their plane was spherical.

The microplanes that had begun to engage with entities beyond their homeplane—exploring nearby demiplanes, broken planes, and the asteroid belt in the void—had reached the pinnacle of microplane existence and were on the verge of transitioning to the low-level planes.

Such advancements were typically triggered by either a technological civilization that had evolved significantly or the emergence of a Rank Four god within the plane.

Guided by such a god, they slowly gained a clear understanding of the surrounding stars and their civilization’s place within them, marking the beginning of their civilization’s ascent!

The Magus World was no exception in its early days.

Nearly all of the top-tier civilizations originated from micro or low-level planes.

The appearance of the green sun was a startling phenomenon for the uninformed natives of Verdant Leaf World, leaving them confused and unprepared.

However, the true leaders of Verdant Leaf World likely understood the situation.

Before the Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly King could rest, having just returned to the capital city from meeting the guardian, it noticed the green sun in the sky too.

The formidable Rank Three life level enabled the Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly King to perceive the enormity and menace of the green sun far more acutely than the uninformed native creatures of Verdant Leaf World.

It was clear that the “sun” was not something its small form could withstand.

From this ominous green sun, the Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly King sensed an impending, terrifying crisis that would soon unfold.

Without delay, it gently pushed aside his favored dragonfly consort and spread his wings, flying directly toward the lush mountains to the north of the royal city.

These mountains served as the ancestral lands of the Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly Clan and were considered sacred within the plane.

Here, the rich dendro elemental aura interwove with the lush greeneries.

There were no more than three places in the entire Verdant Leaf World where elemental concentrations were richer, one being the guardian’s dwelling.

The other two were nestled in the remote forests in the western and northern parts of the plane.

As the ruler, the Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly King was privy to certain secrets of this world.

For instance, in each of those remote locations, there thrived an ancient plant as venerable as the Ancient Verdant Banyan.

These plants had observed the plane’s history for tens of thousands of years, standing as living fossils.

Among the Bamboo Leaf Dragonfly Clan, only their two ancestors could rival the strength of those two ancient plants.