The King of Black Fog

The Emerald Bee Sword transformed into a mass of green light, which gradually solidified into a flying ship resembling a small boat, suspended before everyone.

Even if they squeezed together, it could only accommodate three people.

The anticipation on everyone's faces froze in place.

The ship turned into green light again, this time large enough that it had to float up a bit to display its full form.

However...

Clang!

The ship suddenly sank, as if countless rats had been startled inside, initiating a frantic escape akin to rummaging through boxes.

The internal components seemed to be merely covered in place like paper.

The ship turned into green light once more... by then, the temperature had risen to 5000 degrees Celsius.

The Princess, whose physical body was not strong, the person in charge, had already begun to sweat slightly.

The solar prominences in the sky seemed to merely sear, the distance unchanging from just moments ago, and that was the truly terrifying part.

If it could raise the surface temperature to 5000 degrees Celsius from so far away, once the constant star exhaled its breath fully onto the planet, this beautiful glass bead would melt like a flake of snow.

The General was busy with the random flying ship manoeuvre.

The Princess glanced at the person in charge holding a child, smiled without any humor and said: "He's never been very lucky."

"I can see that." The person in charge nodded.

"So—" The Princess's gaze fell from the person in charge's face, aiming at the baby in her arms, "this unlucky offspring might bring us misfortune."

"It might represent another possibility for your child."

The Princess suddenly became agitated: "My child, born from your body?!"

"Anything is possible." The person in charge turned to look at her, a slight smile playing at her lips.

The Princess stepped forward, and the General caught her: "Let's go!"

The new ship in front was quite ordinary, lacking a self-sustaining ecosystem, needing provision of food, and without a jump function.

But it was massive, ten kilometers long, and solid enough.

Its wide door was like a lake. The General took the Princess on board first, intending to enter the cabin but suddenly turned around.

Tina had just landed inside the ship, saw the General turn around, and stood still as well.

The General's gaze went past her, checking the condition of the person in charge.

The person in charge came aboard with a gentle breeze the General had never felt, landing lightly in the cabin.

She carried the child into the cabin on her own, a guard following closely, smirking as they passed the General.

The General withdrew his gaze, turned around, the Princess was watching him with folded arms.

The General smiled slightly, stepped forward to put his arm around her shoulder, but the Princess shrugged it off, casting a cold glance, her white hair fluttering as she walked away on her own.

"General." Tina and Kert came up, and the enormous door rose like a fortress wall.

"Take over the ship." The General said.

"Yes!"

Though entering this possibility, everyone's memory and knowledge were not reduced, only augmented with the memory of this possibility's "self", familiar with the ship.

Even for newcomers to this ship, they intuitively found their way to the bridge.

A series of systems activated, Tina's hands resting on the control panel, as if playing a piano.

"Sir!" Tina suddenly turned back, "There is no..... energy."

Everyone held their breath, finding hope in desperation, only to fall back into despair.

"Keep the course," the General said, "I'll push."

He turned to head to the exit, when suddenly someone called to him.

"Wait." The one who spoke was the guard.

Behind her, formula rings lit up in a triangular formation, at its center six alternating red and blue glowing beads of the Blood Ring, positioned at the apex.

"These anti-matter beads can supplement the Life Ring ship's energy, should also suffice for this one—open all the hatches!"

In a blur, she transformed into a massive golden bird.

The giant bird folded its wings, unleashing a burst of airflow, sweeping the deck, she turned into a golden line that shot out.

The hatch ascended slowly before her, and she passed through the bottom.

The six red and blue glowing anti-matter beads then reacted like a spark, spiraling out, red and blue intertwining like a genetic chain.

Traversing the ten-kilometer ship, she found the energy chamber, taking only seconds as a golden giant bird.

"Buzz!!"

With energy replenished, the enormous ship lit up with radiance, like a beast opening its eyes.

When the ship started, charging towards the sky's sea of flames, the gravitational mass behind the ship created a vast low-pressure zone, sweeping up ashes, flames, and beasts, all rushing towards the sky's sea of flames along with the ship.

The blazing Divine Tree also uprooted from the cracked Earth and followed the ship.

The fleeing Divine Race looked at this scene from afar, solar prominences launching, with the ship seeking survival within the flames, signaling a cosmic bridge between them.

As if two gods were about to clash.

"We cannot let them survive!" a Divine Race Warrior roared.

On both sides of the ship, countless inevitable Divine Will Golden Spears lit up.

Boom!

The ship sharply sank a bit, the giant General standing on top of the ship.

He clenched his right hand before his left shoulder, slightly bent his waist, then swung his arm vigorously—

Boom!!!

A tangible shockwave, like a wall, erupted from his hand, rapidly growing larger and wider.

Divine Race Warriors screamed, instantly crushed into blood mist by the shockwave, even the forefront Heavenly Might-like solar prominence spearhead was bent under its force.

The General stepped forward with his left foot, pressing the ship downwards again, then unleashed a thunderous punch.

The world turned upside down, gale winds howled, the straight column of air shattered the solar prominence spear in its path, returning it to the sea of flames.

Soon, even the flame sea covering the sky rippled, sinking slightly.

Boom!!

The ship accelerated, surging into the sinking ripple of the flame sea, flames hanging in strands at the window, like heated blades.

The General's clothes turned to ash instantly, flames adhering to him, like a fiery armor.

He seemed like a Fire God, steering his chariot through the sea of flames.

Boom!!!

With another punch, the collapsing flame ripple, before it could close, was shattered again by this punch!