Global Descent: I Alone Can See Hidden Evolution Paths

Chapter 54: The upper realm belongs to me

The spatial feedback of the Spatial Void Phase did not dump them onto the fringes of the battlefield. It materialised the group straight into the atmospheric epicenter of the Fifth Sky’s central domain.

The environment was a dizzying vista of floating silver crystalline islands anchored around a colossal, miles-wide stone tower known as The Covenant Spire. The structural core of the spire was actively vibrating under a relentless, apocalyptic siege. Surrounding the sanctuary were dozens of floating demonic warships, their iron hulls bleeding black smoke as they poured endless waves of destructive void-fission arrays onto the spire’s cracking silver sigils. Over forty thousand elite demon legionnaires swarmed the airspace like a literal ocean of black steel.

"The dimensional gravity here is five times standard parameters," Major General Shin Ye-rin reported, her voice coming through the communication link with a crisp, unshaken military weight. Her fingers moved like a blur across the terminal. "The defensive seals on the tower are failing. The final three friendly deities have completely exhausted their baseline mana reserves just to block the vanguard line."

"Then we’ll clear the field before the seals collapse," Min-jae said smoothly.

He stood at the absolute edge of the viewing platform, his hands casually stuffed inside his pockets. The light-absorbing dark alloy of his True Vajra-Sovereign Sub-Divine God-Armor cast a heavy, ominous shadow over the silver islands down below.

"Intruders from the lower planes!" a harsh, mechanical roar boomed across the sky.

Sprinting to the forward deck of the central flagship carrier was Fleet Admiral Malgath (Level 48). He was a colossal, nine-foot demon warlord encased in thick, rust-covered executioner plates. In his giant claws, he wielded a massive, triple-bladed dark matter cannon that buzzed with raw, conceptual disintegration energy. "You managed to slip past the outer sky tracking loops, but you brought your little harem straight into a slaughterhouse! All ships, adjust tracking coordinates! Vaporize that tower and erase their core signatures!"

"Allow me to anchor the field, Monarch," Gu Bylai voiced, stepping up tightly to his right flank.

The staggeringly beautiful Ice Goddess maintained her majestic, regal posture, the sleeveless white silk combat gown clinging tantalizingly to her exceptionally voluptuous hourglass figure and full, heavy chest. Her pale porcelain neck still held a faint, beautiful crimson flush from his previous touch, but her icy-blue eyes were now burning with absolute, fanatical devotion. She raised her smooth hands, a massive wave of pristine winter starlight exploding from her palms.

[Subordinate Alignment Active: Goddess Gu Bylai Deploys 10% Ice Parameters!]

[Active Active Field Skill: ’Glacial Absolute Stasis’!]

[Effect: A massive, two-mile wave of zero-degree cosmic ice violently sweeps across the airspace. The entire forty-thousand-man demon fleet receives an immediate 50% penalty to structural movement velocity and operational cooldown tracking for 60 seconds!]

Crack!

The massive demonic warships instantly groaned as thick, crystalline sheets of winter ice frozen them in mid-air, stalling their cannon deployment.

"Chae-won, initialize the forge consolidation while they are frozen," Min-jae commanded flatly, his deadpan obsidian eyes tracking the stalled fleet.

"On it, boss! Stripping the cosmic metal!" Han Chae-won beamed, her fingers execution-tapping her logistics panel as she emptied the accumulated grand duke resources straight into the core matrix.

[Citadel Upgrade Protocol Active: Fusing Slain Demon Lord Core Fragments...]

[Your SSS-Rank Weapon Forge has successfully ascended to: ’The Sub-Divine Celestial Anvil’!]

[Effect: All base crafting velocity parameters increased by 100%. Future weapon evolutions for the core team now bypass standard material constraints by 30%!]

"The forge is fully unsealed," Min-jae murmured, a cold, dark, and highly calculated grin touching his handsome face. He slowly stepped off the edge of the platform, walking straight into the open sky, his boots stepping onto invisible ripples of spatial density as his Solar Zenith Domain detonated.

A catastrophic, five-hundred-meter absolute field of white-hot primordial solar fire erupted from his chest plate, instantly colliding with Gu Bylai’s zero-degree glacial starlight. The thermal shockwave didn’t cancel out; it created a volatile, reality-breaking thermal fracture that turned the entire star sector into a boiling, melting inferno of vaporized steel.

Fleet Admiral Malgath and forty thousand legionnaires frantically fired their dark matter cannons and high-tier void spells simultaneously, unleashing a continuous, multi-mile wall of raw destruction designed to turn a planetary continent to ash. The mountain-sized mass of incoming cataclysm damage slammed squarely into Min-jae’s bare chest armor.

The moment the 40,000-man multi-pronged strike made contact, his sub-divine armor passive, Cosmic Indifference, fired off its un-blockable 250% True Damage loop.

[Ding! Received 2,500,000 points of High-Tier Abyssal Damage from 40,000 Legionnaires.]

[Sub-Divine Trait Active: ’Vajra Ward’ converts 2.5 Million Magic Damage into Physical Impact... Successful.]

[SSS-Rank Talent Active: ’Eternal Vajra Deity Body’ triggered! Total Damage Negated. Health Pool: 100/100.]

[Sub-Divine Passive Active: ’Vajra Retribution’ triggers 250% True Damage solar amplification!]

[Reflecting 6,250,000 points of True Damage permanently imbued with ’Solar Fracture’!]

A catastrophic, blinding white-hot counter-blast erupted from Min-jae’s skin, turning the entire Fifth Sky into a burning graveyard. The 6.25 million points of True Damage traveled instantly in reverse along the trajectories, treating the demon army’s heavy iron plates, deep abyssal shields, and level-based damage reduction metrics like thin air.

The forty thousand elite shadow legionnaires didn’t even have time to utter a single gasp. The moment their weapons touched his domain, their entire massive wall of iron and flesh violently disintegrated into a clean, blinding cloud of white experience particles. Fleet Admiral Malgath let out a choked, blood-curdling shriek as his nine-foot frame was instantly vaporized into ash by the Solar Fracture trait, which burned away his underlying mana pool in less than a microsecond.

The entire forty-thousand-man planetary invasion fleet was completely, flawlessly dismantled in less than three seconds without scratching a single fraction of his god-armor.

Voom!.

Han Chae-won ran out to the edge of the platform, her face flushed with fanatical glee as she raised her small hands. "The cosmic treasury has been completely strip-mined, boss! Global Spatial Devour!"

The millions of gold coins, forty thousand shattered weapons, ten high-tier divine schematics, and the massive Admiral Core Core floating over the skyline were instantaneously vacuumed straight into her infinite void inventory, leaving the entire atmosphere pristine and spotless.

[Ding! Your team has achieved a World-First Absolute Clearing of the Fifth Sky Siege Fleet! Gained 300,000 EXP!]

[You have leveled up! You are now Level 21!]

The heavy silver gates of the Covenant Spire slowly slid open, and the three shivering, breathless figures of the remaining friendly deities looked out through the melting steam, their jaws completely dropped in primal horror as they stared at the pristine young man who had just deleted an entire upper-realm vanguard while keeping his hands inside his pockets.

Min-jae casually spun his space-cutting claymore onto his shoulder, his seven flawless, highly evolved queens and his new ally lining up perfectly behind his flank with deep, adoration-filled smiles. He looked down at the trembling deities.

"The siege is finished," Min-jae murmured, his voice a low thunderclap that echoed through the cosmos. "Step behind my throne. The upper realms belong to my ledger now."