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Introduction: An End and a New Beginning

Introduction: An End and a New Beginning

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The planet Archelius. The Great Empire of Lu. Universe #586. The year 1111.

Thunder rumbled across the entire Great Empire of Lu. Lightning flashed across the sky. Golden particles of energy descended in a loose fog over the lands of men. It was a fight to the death—not for death, but for life.

The First Supreme All-Seeing Guardian of the Gate of Life, Mo Sha, flew between the mountains, hiding from his opponent's attack. Serpent-shaped thunderstorms struck the very mountains he had previously passed, blowing them apart.

Mo Sha turned around mid-flight. The emperor of the Great Lu Empire, Lu Yin, was gathering more and more energy from all his lands to finish off this scoundrel once and for all. Mo Sha realized the emperor was going to end everything in one blow, and this strike promised to be as deadly as possible.

"You can't escape from this attack, Mo Sha!" Emperor Lu Yin folded his seals. "You didn't want to submit to the will of my empire, so taste all its power and experience all the pain you brought me with your refusal!"

A curse. Tain, what's wrong with your energy? Mo Sha turned to his spiritual companion in his mind. Can you lend me any more of your energy?

Negative. Tain, the white-haired lion of the air element, replied. You will have to go on your own from here, without me. My energy reserves are running low. If we go on like this, our connection will be completely cut off.

"It's a difficult situation," Mo Sha had to admit the truth. "The only thing left is to fight the emperor one-on-one."

So, the emperor was right. There was no point in fleeing now. Wherever Mo Sha flew, wherever he went, Lu Yin's attack would catch up with him, even three hundred kilometers away from the empire itself.

"You killed my brothers, hated my followers. And now you want me to submit to your empire?!" Mo Sha laughed at the mere insane thought that such a thing could happen. "Whoever you think you are—even the creator of the universe himself—I don't care about you or your empire! And I will never submit to you!"

"What a shame..." Emperor Lu Yin sighed heavily.

"You chose this path yourself. I wished for a different outcome." The emperor put all the energy he had gathered into a single attack.

An enormous sphere that emitted a huge amount of black lightning lay easily on the emperor's arm. It was a secret technique that he had personally developed for such an occasion. With the next movement, it would shatter into a million particles and strike anyone, no matter what they did to save themselves. This fight was a one-way street.

Terrifying power. Mo Sha fortified himself with the might of the emperor, whom he himself had once placed in this position. Golden energy reached out to the Guardian of the Gate of Life, concentrating around him into dense layers of defense. This was the only thing that could help him survive Lu Yin's attack; he had no other trump cards left.

"Nine Wishes Defense Technique?" The desired feeling of victory was replaced by envy in the emperor's heart. With his remaining strength, he squeezed the sphere with his hand, causing it to crack. The sphere dragged behind the emperor and disintegrated into a million shards. "Wherever you got this technique from, it won't change your fate either. You will die—here and now!"

Three layers of defense perfectly formed out of a possible nine. This was his limit for the moment. In this state, he couldn't push himself any further. Surrounded on all sides by Mo Sha's defenses, he waited for the emperor's attack to arrive. Beneath his feet, a black swamp blurred on the ground, from which the same black lightning bolts erupted. They slammed into Mo Sha's defense with terrifying intensity, but did not penetrate it. Mo Sha had prepared well for Lu Yin's possible attack.