Cain's eyes were closed as he stood in one of the ditation chambers of the Enlightened One's Eternal Kingdom.
The chamber trembled faintly under the force of his cultivation. Divine energy swirled through the air like a crimson storm, drawn into his body as he refined the essence of the ArchDeities he had slain in battle above the Rainbow Bridge. Their life force and their origin power nourish his body and soul.
And it wasn't only his body that grew stronger.
Within the depths of his Black Hole, his Supercomputer Assistant was evolving as well. It devoured the origin energies from the stolen Divine Abilities he had gathered.
His strength was rising at a terrifying pace, yet there was no peace in his heart.
The air within the chamber felt heavy, almost oppressive. Thoughts of the Neo-Angels, of Urin's overwhelming might, haunted the edges of his mind. The world was shifting too quickly, growing far too dangerous for comfort.
But then again-danger had always been his companion.
"Things were apocalyptic during the Everstrife War," Cain thought, his inner voice steady as steel. "And I survived. I will survive again. I just need to move forward and face whatever cos with all my might."
Willpower ignited within him, burning away doubt and confusion. His mind sharpened into perfect focus. Hesitation was death, and calm had long since ceased to be an option. The ti when he could take things calmly ended the mont the Neo-Angel Race revealed their existence.
After three and a half weeks of deep ditation, Cain opened his
eyes.
A golden glow flickered in his pupils as he absorbed the final waves of energy into his body. Rising to his feet, he breathed in the charged air of the chamber, then ascended into the sky of the Eternal Kingdom.
The mont he stepped into the open sky, his instincts flared. A massive spatial fluctuation rippled through the kingdom's core. Without hesitation, he flashed forward, his form vanishing in a streak of crimson light.
Monts later, he arrived at the source.
The Enlightened One stood before a golden formation engraved into the marble ground, the sigils beneath his feet glowing brighter with every passing second. The entire might of the Eternal Kingdom was pouring into the circle, feeding it with wave after wave of divine. energy.
Soon after, ylin appeared, her aura burning softly with restrained power. Their eyes t, and both nodded silently.
They knew what this was.
The golden array was the teleportation formation-the gateway that would transport them into the Third Realm.
For Cain and ylin, this was a mont they had awaited for a long ti. Were it not for the chaos of the war, they would have attempted this ascension long ago, as soon as Cain awoke from his last slumber. Yet now, with the Second Realm burning in the fires of the Life-Freedom conflict, it felt less like an opportunity and more like a necessity.
Excitent, however, soon gave way to solemn focus.
The higher one climbed within the Crimson World, the deadlier things beca-and that was before the ergence of the Neo-Angels. Even ArchDeities struggled to survive in the Second Realm. What awaited them in the Third was beyond imagining.
Still, there was no fear in their eyes.
It was by embracing danger that they had reached this level, and the Red King's Sacred Dinsion was an opportunity they could not ignore. Within it lay secrets that might hold the key to evolving The Flow. Cain needed that power-desperately-if he hoped to confront the challenges that the universe was preparing to unleash.
Neither the Neo-Demon nor the True Depravita dared to interrupt as the Enlightened One worked.
The master of the Eternal Kingdom moved with calm precision, his gaze scanning each of the countless runes carved into the formation. He adjusted their alignnt with flicks of his fingers, ensuring that every symbol resonated perfectly. Even with the barriers between realms weakened, crossing from one plane of existence to another was no simple feat.
Not even most Alpha-Oga Overgods could achieve it without danger. Only entities of near-absolute mastery-those like the Ancient One or the Demon King-possessed the power to transport others across multiple dinsional layers.
That was why the fall of an Alpha-Oga Overgod often ant the near-instant collapse of their entire faction in a given realm. Reinforcents could rarely be sent before annihilation struck.
Hours passed in ticulous silence. Then, at last, the Enlightened One stepped back, satisfaction gleaming faintly in his eyes.
He turned toward Cain and ylin.
"Are you ready?" he asked quietly. "If there's anything left undone in the Second Realm, handle it now. Once we leave, I cannot say when-
or if-we will return."
Cain and ylin exchanged a glance and shook their heads. Their Divine Kingdoms were secure, their affairs in order. There was
nothing left to hold them here.
The Enlightened One nodded once more and stepped into the golden
circle, signaling for them to join him.
"Be prepared," he said. "We will arrive sowhere within the landmass of the Third Realm-but where, I cannot say. Remain alert."
Cain and ylin stepped into the array beside him. The mont they did, divine light erupted from the ground, wrapping their bodies in
threads of gold.
The energy of the Eternal Kingdom surged violently into the formation, brighter and brighter, until the chamber was consud by
a blazing radiance.
Then the formation transford-its glow stretching upward into a single colossal pillar of light that pierced the firmant.
In the next heartbeat, the three figures vanished. The journey through the dinsional barrier was anything but
peaceful.
Though to an outside observer it might have looked like calm golden light, within that light Cain felt his body twisting, stretching, and contorting as though he were made of liquid. The sensation was indescribable-like being pulled through eternity, shredded into fragnts of energy and thought.
Even his consciousness wavered, flickering on the brink of collapse. But he endured, focusing his will through the chaos.
They were passing through a barrier that had existed since the dawn
of creation-a wall of pure cosmic law separating the realms. To traverse it was to defy the natural order itself.
It felt like an eternity, a descent through endless turbulence and
color.
But finally, shapes began to coalesce. Light beca sky. Pressure
beca air.
And then-impact. "BOOM." "BOOM."
"BOOM."
Three massive explosions echoed across a vast plain as their figures
struck the ground, sending ripples of golden dust into the air. Above them stretched a new sky, glowing faintly blue and gold-a sky unlike any they had ever seen.
They had left the Second Realm behind.
Before them lay the Third Realm, ho of the Red King's Sacred
Dinsion.
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