Sovereign of the Ashes

A brutal battle was on the verge of erupting.

When it came to reinforcing the planet ahead, the Klytheran Legion stood firmly at Sein’s side without hesitation.

Darian, Orric, Beatrice, and Auron stayed out of this for now, since they were representatives of their own civilizations.

They would only stand openly with the Magus Civilization’s forces after meeting Magus World’s leadership and finalizing the terms of their alliance.

The Blue Star natives, who had already pledged loyalty to the Magus Alliance, chose to stand with the Klytheran Legion at this moment.

Among the Klytheran Legion, several ships and a handful of combatants actually came from Blue Star. Weak as they still were, their resolve was admirable.

Sein was the first law-wielding powerhouse to charge toward the war-torn planet, his demonic lawful body already activated.

In truth, calling this form “demon lawful body” was no longer accurate. After advancing to Rank Five, his elemental form had once again evolved.

Ashen flames roared around him, giving him the appearance of an Ashen Demon. These gray flames could devour whatever they touched.

Under Sein’s control, the flames could shift at his will—turning into the venomous, explosive Verdant Flame or the metal-melting Azure Flame whenever the battlefield called for it.

But today, he chose to wield his origin flame, the Ashen Flame, because the enemy forces on the planet below were not made up solely of the Gallant Federation’s metallic fleets.

The Sanok Star Domain was a medium-sized civilization that followed the path of self-evolution.

Although they had developed some technology over the past tens of thousands of years, they still retained the traits of a cultivation-based world.

They were, in short, a very ordinary civilization—nothing particularly powerful, but certainly not as weak as a newly ascended medium-sized plane.

Had they not colluded with the Gallant Federation, the Sanok Civilization would have had a promising future ahead of it.

Instead, stepping into the war early turned them into sacrificial pawns rather than strategists.

If not for the federation sending multiple fleets to help them out, the Sanokians would have been wiped out long ago by the Magus Civilization.

For now, the Magus Civilization held absolute control over the entire Sanok Star Domain.

The Gallant Federation seemed reluctant to spark a large-scale clash with the Magus Civilization in this particular star domain.

Instead, they had chosen to focus on several key battlefronts elsewhere, most likely the Golden Rock Worlds and the outskirts of Arid Expanse World.

But because the planet where Sein and his group arrived sat at the very rear of the Sanok Star Domain, this area actually favored the Gallant Federation and the Sanok forces.

The Magus Civilization legions that had pushed this far ahead were now cut off from their main forces, leaving them as the ones fighting at a disadvantage.

Arriving as a fresh and unexpected reinforcement, Sein’s group threw both the federation and the Sanokians completely off guard.

The Sanokians were black-skinned humanoids, towering three meters tall. From afar, they looked like shadows.

On this planet alone, Sein could tell that the Magus Civilization had likely deployed at least three law-wielding knights due to the presence of three enormous space fortresses.

Two still hovered low in the sky, firing continuously, while the third had crashed into the southern battlefield and was now engulfed by clouds of smoke and blazing fire.

Compared to the federal fleet’s firepower, the Klytheran fleet was far outmatched, even with help from the Blue Star natives.

That was why the true vanguard of this battle was the three hundred thousand Klytheram fighters.

The combined forces clashing on this planet numbered in the millions.

Three hundred thousand might not sound like much, but every one of those Klytherans was a ranked combatant!

Their arrival marked a powerful and decisive reinforcement.

As the Klytheran fighters tore through the Gallant Federation and Sanok’s defensive lines with overwhelming force, the battlefield fell into chaos almost instantly.

Karl, being young and powerful, was the fastest of them all.

He charged forward, smashing straight through three Gallant Federation battleships, each one about a kilometer long, with his steel-hard body.

Only such a raw, brutal fighting style could rouse the deep-rooted hatred and bloodlust in the Klytheran race.

The other two Rank Five Klytheran fighters were also quite fast.

Karazo held the center position, calmly directing and coordinating all three hundred thousand troops.

Drew was well past his prime and had even lost sight in one eye, yet somehow he had charged so far ahead that he was nearly catching up to Karl. No one could fathom how he managed it.

The Klytheran Legion had little interest in attacking the Sanoks. Their main focus on this planet’s battlefield was the Gallant Federation’s forces.

After all, their hatred for the federation ran deep in their bones.

Facing the Klytheran fighters, the very race the Gallant Federation had officially declared extinct, one could only imagine what ran through the commanders’ minds.

Of course, Sein could not devote all his attention to assaulting the federal fleet like the Klytherans did. The Sanok forces remained a threat, especially with the large number of lower-tier troops they had deployed on the field.

Before Sein’s arrival, the Magus Civilization’s forces on this planet had been forced into two corners, holding out under pressure as they waited for reinforcements.

Sein could not help recalling his days on Radbow World, trapped in a similarly brutal defense while waiting desperately for the Magus Civilization’s main forces to arrive.

Only this time, he was the one coming as reinforcements.

Although he did not command a large number of regular troops—especially since most of the Klytherans were busy tearing apart the Gallant Federation’s fleet—Sein was not without his own forces.

Alongside the small Klytheran and Blue Star detachment led by Kram, Sein reached into his spatial storage and took out a large handful of seeds.

They were Viridescent Seeds. Lorianne had gifted him half a million of them before his second deployment.

Back during the Grand Eye Demon World campaign, Sein had only been tasked with guarding the logistics base, so he never had the opportunity to use them.

Later, when the Gallant Federation’s Shadow Fleet launched its ambush, the battle took place out in the void beyond the plane.

In that environment, the Viridescent Seeds were practically useless, so they had remained untouched until now.

He certainly had not expected them to finally prove useful here, on a battlefield in the Sanok Star Domain.