The Capital Sky.The air was blowing a gale, and the smell of it was ozone and ash of the city in fire.Alex was one hundred feet above the destroyed harbor and his Dual-Element Qi had been holding him up. But his is flickering energy. The God of War had never been paralyzed in ten years.He looked at the face of the man who was floating across him. The mythical dark gold and crimson armor. The arrogant obstinate mouth. The eyes were blazing golden now and black.Father," Alex said, the word choking him like a fragment of a glass.This last Dragon King smiled. It was not the smiling welcoming face that Alex remembered as a child. It was a sneer cold and proud, That changed his scarred face to a mask of cruelty."You didn't die?" No, no, his mind was saying, it won’t be so. Ten years ago... the Temple told you that you had sacrificed yourself to close the Void Rift in the Forbidden Zone. You died a hero."A mean, yelling laugh burst out of the Emperor."A hero?" The Emperor laughed, an

The sound was absolute.It was more than a noise; it was a physical throb, which shook the teeth in the skull of Alex, and shook the ruined skyscraper with his feet. The nauseating, bioluminescent green light winking around at the edges of the miles-wide Void Rift grew, resulting in an sickish pallor having been cast over the burning Capital City.The body of his father, dead, was dropped by Alex. The derogatory last words used by the Emperor rung in his ears.The Hive Mind is already here.Out of the pitch-black depth of the Rift was a cloud poured out. Initially, it seemed to be black smoke of a gigantic stove. But as it went down into the air, single forms were made out.Locusts, Alex said to himself in horror, his multi-colored eyes enlarging.They weren't normal insects. The Void Locusts were each about the size of a dog and their wings were jagged and razor sharp and of purple statical and their beaks snapped like hydraulic presses.They did not simply eat flesh or metal. They a

"Ten seconds!" The terrified scream of Old Ghost rolled in Alex ear piece. You have a ten seconds before the planet breaks in half!The halves of the Hive Queen that had been cut off high above the wrecked Capital were no longer floating apart. They were between them and a blinding white singularity was ripping the laws of physics off in tatters.Nine seconds. The seriousness in town turned upside down. Pieces of crumbled skyscrapers, deserted Council tanks, and millions of gallons of seawater of the harbor were suddenly violently sucked out into the sky, and whirling in the glowing white core.Eight seconds. Alex narrowed his teeth, and his multi-colored eyes flared. He put his own hand into his breast, and took hold of the raw planetary energy of the World Core."I can contain it!" Alex screamed around the silence breaking the singularity. "Aegis of the Earth! Maximum output!"His hands were lifted to protect the earth, but some scarred and rough hand caught hold on him like a vice-

Three Months Later.There was peace in the Dragon Capital.The world had recovered in ninety days. The atmosphere of Qi which emanated out of the World Core in the chest of the man Alex had brought back to life the dead soil of the planet. The forests were being regenerated with an increased intensity and the mutilated skies forever blue.Within the Dragon Temple, Alex was standing before a large arched window, which was overlooking a prosperous city. His shirt was dark and tightfitting black, and his trousers were dark. The burdens of the last decade had been apparently relieved of its shoulders.He smiled and he listened to the low constant beat of the royal chambers, which had an open door beside the other ones. Sarah had three months to go, and even the spark of life within her was faint and immensely stubbornly Phoenix and Dragon.And enjoying the sight, your Majesty? The voice of Old Ghost cut through the hot calmness over the intercom.It is quiet, I answered, having taken a sw

The Dragon Temple.The Grand Strategy Room had an atmosphere which felt so dense that it could be sliced through using a sword. The center of the room featured a huge mahogany table which emitted light from Old Ghost's holographic projectors in a harsh blue color.The table was surrounded by the most powerful rulers who existed on Earth.General Talon stood at strict military posture while his silver armor shined brightly and his facial expression showed the effects of Aether suppression memory. Glacia sat motionless with her fingers touching the wood in a position which emitted a powerful old-fashioned icy rage.Cain was sitting next to Alex. His heavy boots were placed on the table while he was sitting in a relaxed position.The Warden of the Void spent six difficult months to rebuild his physical form from the void after he consumed the Hive Queen's singularity. The First Heir returned to the world after his battle scars showed his sparkling abyssal powers while he continuously sea