Sharky had considered heading over to try to prevent what was happening, but the battle was at the earth immortal level, making it difficult to get closer.
The hall trembled. Dust fell from the ceiling like rain. The sound of bones reshaping and flesh knitting echoed through the vast chamber — crack... crack... crack!
Before their eyes, the skull beca a head — tall, proud, and radiant like molten gold wrapped in divine fire. Then, a torso erged, covered in scarlet armor engraved with ancient runes. Veins of light pulsed beneath his skin, like rivers of molten sun coursing through him.
Sharky’s heart clenched.
"Impossible..." he whispered. "That body— that radiance— it’s Surya’s bloodline!"
Golden flas burst forth as the man finally rose from the coffin. His long hair flowed like liquid sunlight, and every strand seed to hum with the hymn of the heavens. A single glance from him made even the Fiend Emperor step back unconsciously.
The newly reborn figure lifted his eyes. His irises blazed like twin suns, and his voice — deep, resonant, commanding — rolled across the hall like divine thunder.
"Who... disturbs my rest?"
The vortex vanished in an instant. The oppressive aura scattered, and silence fell — the silence of creation before the first dawn.
Vrishaketu’s spirit trembled in his spectral form. "F-Father... it’s !" he cried. "Your son, Vrishaketu! You’re finally awake!"
The man turned. His gaze fell upon the wavering spirit. For a mont, his expression softened.
"Vrishaketu..." he said quietly, and the single word was enough to make the entire hall vibrate with restrained emotion. "You’ve grown, even in death."
Tears of light flowed from Vrishaketu’s incorporeal eyes. "Father, I tried... I tried to guard your legacy. But I was captured... enslaved..." His voice cracked. "Forgive your useless son."
Karna, it was indeed Karna, the Son of the Sun, he raised a hand, and divine light spread gently toward the spirit.
"Do not speak thus. Even the gods bend beneath fate’s yoke. You, my child, have endured beyond life. That is no weakness, that is strength."
Vrishaketu’s spirit flickered with renewed brightness. "Father, the world has changed. The fiends and monsters rise again. These n sought your tomb for power. They even used as a key to unseal you!"
The Fiend Emperor gathered his courage and said, "Your son has promised that after I unsealed you, you will give the Goldenrain Fruit."
Karna’s gaze turned toward him, and in that instant, the Fiend Emperor’s demonic aura wavered, retreating like mist before dawn.
Before Karna could even speak, the golden whips of light that had been lashing the stone coffin suddenly froze mid-air.
The absorption force burst out of the stone coffin again, devouring all of the ki near it. However, the golden lights didn’t strike its surface again, instead withdrawing into the walls.
Charlotte was shocked. She quickly explained, "Judging from what that spirit said earlier, these golden whips of light’s power seem to be related to his father Karna."
Diana and Alina were amazed. This woman was good in her field after all!
But Karna paid them no heed. His gaze drifted past the trembling Fiend Emperor, past the swirling vortex, until it rested upon Sharky. His eyes narrowed slightly, as if weighing the man’s spirit.
"My old tis..." Karna murmured, his voice carrying the resonance of ages. "The taste of dust and blood upon the battlefield of Kurukshetra still lingers upon my soul. I rember the arrows that tore the skies, the sound of chariots breaking, the cries of n and gods alike."
His eyes grew distant, as if seeing through ti itself.
"I fought for duty. For friendship. For honor denied. Yet in the end, it was he who stood before , my equal and my brother, though fate forbade us to know."
He paused, and the na escaped him like a prayer carried by thunder.
"Arjuna."
The chamber grew silent. Even the air seed to bow beneath that mory.
"When I faced him, the world itself watched. Our arrows clashed, our wills burned. We shared no hatred, only truth. The truth that two flas cannot burn within one sun."
His golden eyes then turned toward Sharky, and a faint ripple of energy spread through the hall. The Fiend Emperor shivered; Charlotte and Diana instinctively stepped back.
Karna studied the man quietly. "You... carry his spirit."
Sharky’s breath caught. The faint glow of spiritual energy rose behind him, forming the illusion of a shimring bow before fading away.
Karna’s gaze deepened, unreadable. "The sa pulse. The sa defiance. The sa stillness of heart before battle."
Sharky t his eyes. "If you an the one called Arjuna," he said evenly, "But I’m not him. My path is my own."
Karna inclined his head slightly, his expression unreadable, "Perhaps. Or yeah, you are different, because I feel another person has the sa faith in him."
He was also a little confused, who is the other person, because he feels the sa as Arjuna’s power and fate, or even more stronger than Arjuna.
He turned away, his radiant armor glinting with the light of the dormant runes around them. "I have seen too many lifetis to mistake that fire."
Diana couldn’t help but look at Sharky, asking, "Sharky, why do you know so much about ancient tis? These are things even we’ve never heard of before."
Charlotte and Alina nodded in agreent. That had beco especially evident after they entered the secret dungeon they knew nothing about. It was almost as if Sharky ca from this world.
Sharky chuckled and said, "I know many things. We can spend so ti together under the candlelight, and I’ll slowly tell you everything then."
"Alright," Alina said.
Her agreent was one thing, but Diana and Charlotte both subconsciously agreed too!
Karna’s gaze lingered on Sharky for a long mont before slowly turning toward his son. The golden light around him softened.
"Vrishaketu," he said quietly, his voice carrying both warmth and distance, "this is not our world anymore. What remains here are fragnts — echoes of what once was."
The words hung heavy in the air.
The others — Sharky, Charlotte, even the Fiend Emperor — felt their hearts clench.
Vrishaketu’s spirit trembled. "Then... Father, will you leave again?"
Karna raised his hand, stopping him. "No, my son. Do not mistake departure for death."
Golden light rippled around him.
"This land beneath our feet is not the Earth we once walked upon. It bears the sa sky, the sa rivers, yet it is different — a reflection carved from ti itself. We were pulled here, forcibly, by the echoes of divine power that do not belong to us."
He looked down at Vrishaketu with the tenderness of a father and the wisdom of a warrior who had lived through worlds.
"We are beings of the Earth’s realm — not spirits ant to wander this fractured plane. Our presence here bends the laws of creation. It is ti to return, before this false earth collapses beneath us."
The golden aura pulsed brighter, filling the hall with warmth that made even the Fiend Emperor step back.
Charlotte whispered, "Return... to where? Is he talking about heaven?"
Karna turned toward her briefly, his voice echoing like distant thunder. "Not heaven, mortal, it is our ho, the true Earth."
Vrishaketu’s eyes glowed. "So... we are not dying?"
Karna smiled, faint but radiant. "No, my son. We rely go back to where we belong."
He turned his gaze once more to the others. "This world is not ours to walk. Guard it well, for its sun is dimr than the one we knew."
Karna exhaled slowly, as though releasing centuries of burden. "It is ti," he said. "I will see this world one last ti — its sun, its earth, its people... and then we will depart."
He stepped forward, the floor glowing gold beneath each stride. But before he could dissolve into light, Sharky’s voice suddenly cut through the silence.
"Wait!"
Karna turned, the brilliance dimming just enough for his golden eyes to focus on him.
Sharky crossed his arms and said with perfect seriousness, "Before going back, at least you need to give sothing, right?"
The air went dead still.
Both Golden Crows nearly fell over. Did he just talk to the Son of the Sun like that?
Even the Fiend Emperor’s jaw dropped, unable to decide if Sharky was brave or insane.
For a mont, Karna stared — and then, slowly, a quiet smile ford.
"Give you?" His tone was amused, almost nostalgic. "You remind of soone who once demanded answers from gods themselves."
But since Karna had promised that whoever asked sothing from him, he would always give them.
He lifted his hand, and a sliver of pure sunlight detached from his armor, a warm ember floating toward Sharky.
"This," Karna said, "is a shard of the Sun’s aura. It can transform into any weapon, whichever you think, you thought. It holds the power to both destroy and illuminate. Keep it close, when darkness surrounds you, it will rember your courage."
The ember sank into Sharky’s chest, vanishing, but leaving behind a faint golden warmth that pulsed in rhythm with his heartbeat.
Karna then looked to Vrishaketu. "Co, my son. Our ti in this shadow realm is over."
A radiant vortex opened behind them, shimring with runes older than the stars.
With that, the light engulfed father and son.
When it faded, the hall was silent once more, but in Sharky’s chest, the warmth of the Sun still glowed, steady and eternal.
But Sharky didn’t know, the spirit today has unleashed, it is going to another realm. Another Multiverse, a Universe where Gods and Asura battle each other. A Universe, where a being is going to show the Gods, who is the real King.
(For the curious reader, that will be the story of my other novel. Rajbhoomi.)
All those who received the recognition of the world had to have great fortune. As long as Sharky continued to cultivate in this world, his cultivation speed would be countless tis higher than in the outside world.
It was to the extent that if anyone wanted to treat him badly, that person would be rejected by the world and experience bad luck thereafter.
After arriving in this world, the Fiend Emperor had killed the Four Perils and undone countless important seals. He had obtained so many key pieces to this trial, and yet he hadn’t obtained the acknowledgent of the world. Just what had Sharky done to enjoy such good fortune?
The Golden Crow Crown Prince felt even more jealous. Why?! This ant just jumps around annoyingly! What right does he have to enjoy all of this? Why does he get all the benefits?
Sharky himself hadn’t expected to obtain world recognition. Could it be because he had completed Arjuna’s heroic path, shooting down the nine suns who had been causing chaos from above?
If he were to compare it to a ga, he had probably completed the equivalent of this world’s S-rank hidden quest, as well as the Fiend Emperor’s S-rank main quest.
Unlike them, the Golden Crow Crown Prince was filled with jealousy and hatred. This guy got lucky again! He really is my fated enemy. Why aren’t the heavens hacking him to death?!
The Fiend Emperor wondered what Karna had given Sharky. Whatever it was, it had to be sothing extraordinary.
In previous years, the human emperor Henry had sent so people into an Unknown Region, and seed to have obtained an immortal secret.
Even though that thod seed to have failed, Unknown Regions really did turn out to be full of hope. Could it be that the secret had already been passed on to Sharky?
Sharky sighed, seeing Karna had vanished. However, he suddenly noticed that a deep vortex appeared in the spot Karna had disappeared from. There was a familiar aura coming from within.
Charlotte exclaid happily, "That seems to be the aura of our world!"
"This Unknown Region has been successfully conquered. We can return to our original world now," Sharky added excitedly.
He had entered Unknown Regions before, and thus had experience. The three won cheered excitedly when they heard his explanation.
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