1 THE END OF THE 33rd HEAVEN

33rd heavenly war (10 years after the commencement)

Holy light castle,

Empyrean's courtyard,

A young man wearing a golden battle-armor was lying in a pool of blood gasping for breath frantically while staring at a black armored man as if he was a devil.

The young man's face was as pale as porcelain, his eyes devoid of any signs of life with only terror and unwillingness within them.

He took a deep breath and said hysterically "y-you destroyed everything. My people, my children, my brothers, my HOLY LIGHT EMPIRE"

This youthful looking man was actually EMPYREAN CHRONOS the ruler of the now destroyed 33rd HEAVEN the HOLY LIGHT EMPIRE. Even though his facial features were youthful he was already at least half a million years old.

The Black armored man seething with killing intent pointed his crescent moon halberd towards the empyrean's forehead and said " This is karma ...for all lives you reaped, for all those war orphans, all those widows and most importantly for my FATHER!!!"

Having said up to this the black armored man took off his helmet, although he wasn't as handsome as CHRONOS he was still well above average.

He had sharp blue eyes, sword like eyebrows, unlike Chronos's noble bearing his whole demeanor was of an unrestrained war god, a true slaughterer.

After taking a glimpse at this face Chronos's whole body shook and his heart clenched. This face couldn't be more familiar to him .....because this exact features belonged to the man he once called his SWORN BROTHER who suddenly vanished on an auspicious day . He wanted to embrace this brother of his and ask him how he was doing, where did he vanished?, why didn't he contact him?, there were so many questions he wanted to ask but couldn't because although they had similar features the difference in their bearing was astoundingly large. One carried a true hero like being but the one in front of him was just a slaughtering machine.

He asked in a low voice which seemed to contain longing "Are you HIS son?"

The other nodded. This left him confused as to why would his sworn brother's descendent come after so many year only to lust after his blood?

Chronos thought of something and suddenly gave a bitter laugh 'ah my brother all of us got played haha those of the higher heavens didn't even spare our descendents from their pleasure time game' his whole body shook and the wounds started to open up again but he didn't care as he had figured it out that 'why did this nephew of his would suddenly came after him, why did his rage felt so real'...and all those strange events that happened all those years started to make some sense.

His whole body started to radiate with a golden hue he mustered all his power to lift his almost dead body to arrive in front the black armored man.

'I won't let your son be wasted!!! I will save him brother even at the cost of my soul's annihilation'

Time seemed to have stopped the black armored man tried to impale his halberd on Chronos's forehead but before he could do so Chronos had already arrived in front of him as if the boundaries of space didn't matter to him and lightly tapped his index finger on the latter's temple <tap> and said "live strong". Just at this moment the halberd finally impaled Chronos <blashhh> and he was blasted flying 10 km away.

******

On the verge of death Chronos vaguely remembered his childhood when he was 5 years old and found himself staring at his father's back who was covered in a purple Armour dyed with blood.

"Dad where are you going?" asked Chronos with unconcealed shock in his eyes.

His dad didn't turn but said "My child...<puhh>forgive me....for I may not return....i couldn't save your mother..... getting vengeance for her led to our parting" he suddenly coughed a mouthful of blood <puhhh> with a somewhat cracked voice as if he was forcing back the unbearable pain he was in, he continued :

"Son I made a mistake....making a false judgment of my enemy's ability *gasp* this led to my current condition....so all I ask for you is to LIVE STRONG!! NEVER LET VENGEANCE CLOUD YOU!!!....and above all never ever belittle the heaven's abilities....after all our life and death is just a source of their entrainment"

His dad didn't turned around to look at him and left with his towering figure which although was riddled with holes but hadn't bent a bit.

Chronos repeated " we are just a source of entertainment...."

that was the last time he saw his father.

******

The black armored man suddenly felt his mind shook and he started to hallucinate about strange images within which came massive information and a headache that nearly made him fall on his knees and groan. After an hour which seemed to have lasted for an eternity the black armored man looked towards Chronos's direction and jolted forward with tears welling up making his vision blurry, but he didn't care. He arrived at Chronos's corpse and fell on his knees. Rage welling up inside of him towards himself.

looking at the lifeless body of Chronos he yelled in heart wrenching tone. "UNCLE!!!!!! Nooooooo!!!!" His cry pierced the heaven and it started to rain. He felt an insurmountable rage welling up inside of him after all those memories Chronos passed to him before his death coupled with his own information made everything crystal clear to him.

This whole war that took everything he held dear was at the end nothing but a source of entertainment for some SPECIAL BEINGS.

He held his Halberd and Roared "SPACE RUPTURE!!!" and he suddenly teleported to a place which seemed like an army camp in the center of which was a mini castle about 500m squared in area. Somehow the space around the castle seemed desolate and foreign to him even though he had been here for who knows how many times? Yet he sensed presence of life coming from the center and a few from here and there as if having him in an encirclement.

This castle belonged to his childhood friend GABRIEL the king of All the lower realms and person who asked for his help on the siege of HOLY LIGHT EMPIRE. He had many questions for Gabriel and even though he subconsciously knew answer to most of those, he still didn't want to believe them as that would mean his childhood friend, the person who to rose to such heights along with him as orphan was nothing but an overly ambitious being who for his own agenda sacrificed everyone .

Before he could even step-inside the outer perimeter he heard an excited and familiar shout "ACTIVATE GOD SLAYER"

<Bleammm>

Several beams of cyan light converged at his location and he realized that his worst nightmare had became a reality, he had been betrayed and played by the person he trusted the most. But he was unwilling to let the sacrifices of those who died for him in this war go to vain and let this so-called king reign any longer. He swept his Halberd and thought 'THE NINTH STAR' this was his strongest move, he who was the TRANSCENDENT known as the NINE STAR GOD 'ASHURA', the HIGHEST under the HEAVEN, the leader of the invincible group of 108 transcendent beings known as HEAVEN MASSACRE LEGION.

The crescent moon halberd revealed a blinding black and red luminescence which gave an impression of death and seemed to have pierced the heaven itself. It broke the cyan light beams generating a screeching noise <bang!!!!> with blood splashing and people groaning ….. the black beam continued towards the castle only to be obliterated into nothingness just 100m away from it by a golden hue.

Ashura gazed towards the golden hue only to find a similar hue piercing his chest from behind he turned ... to find Gabriel standing with a person wearing 9 clawed dragon robe with sharp facial features and calm eyes which somehow couldn't conceal his excitement.

The man said to ASHURA "oh, that move of yours was strong enough to deflect my empire's strongest skill GOLDEN STORM. You are good kid if it wasn't for your friend here I would have taken you as a disciple....but sadly even an exceptional talent from the lower realms is nothing but a play piece to the higherups-" having said up to this the man immediately shut up as if remembering something.

The hue was coming from the sword held by this robed person. Ashura ignored him... his gaze towards Gabriel he asked in a voice which seemed carry endless rage and melancholy "Why?"

Gabriel was a handsome man with a fit build, charismatic features and golden eyes which seemed to have contained endless mysteries. He looked towards Ashura with a complicated emotion on his face and said "Can't believe after all we went through this will all come to end like this ..... I never wanted to kill you but you became too strong for your own good and with no motive to move you any further on this heaven domination expedition without your heaven massacre legion....there was no way you would work with me to conquer all the remaining heavens as that will lead to unnecessary loss of life....you don't understand that once someone has conquered a heaven then some ruler from the top 5 heavenly empires would grant them one wish....the price of the wish being your newly established kingdom getting a thousand year of peace time only to be swept in the wars of the upper heavens as a cannon fodder or being attacked by the lower realms. I didn't want this dominance of mine to be taken!!! All those years I have spent as an orphan, that helplessness I didn't want any of that.....thus I used my wish to kill you so that you will not stop my purge on the lower realms"

After Gabriel finished speaking the dragon robed man nodded to him he moved once again towards Ashura and waved his golden sword towards him. The difference between the power level of Ashura and this upper heaven ambassador wasn't too great but after considering the war Ashura went through for 10 years and executing the NINTH STAR had already left him drained, the outcome became obvious.

After a few moments a peerless genius of his generation which according to the robed man was a true genius even among countless cultivators of the upper realm died.

The clawed robed man said while staring towards the sky

"Alas....even such a genius died, truly a pity.....just as those mortals say *man proposes heaven disposes*.....and this idiot of a friend thinks he can dominate the higher heavens....hehe perhaps such is the courage bestowed by ignorance"

END OF PROLOGUE.