Above The Sky
Chapter 1007 - 1007 104 Terra Dragon and the Hatching Egg

1007: Chapter 104: Terra Dragon and the Hatching Egg 1007: Chapter 104: Terra Dragon and the Hatching Egg In the hazy visions of retrospection, Ian faintly heard a prophetic poem recited in the cadence of the Terra tongue.

[The Final Apocalypse Descends]

[Fate abandons us all]

[Ancient glory turns to dust]

[Cataclysmic flames burn sun and moon]

[Mortal beings of the world]

[You shall face judgment]

[All traces of past eras]

[Return to ash]

[Lost in the abyss of forgetting]

[Mortal beings of the world]

[You shall listen]

[To the day of ultimate darkness]

[To the hour of the final descent]

[None of you will be spared]

This fourteen-line poem, the most canonical of Terra’s countless mythological prophecies, narrates with mournful lament the descent of the Apocalypse, the destruction of the world, the arrival of the End, and the thorough erasure of all that was, reducing it to forgotten dust.

And yet, there were no fewer than hundreds of versions of such apocalyptic prophecies in the Terra of that era.

It could almost be said that, year after year, someone would proclaim that the end of days was near—but for the people of Terra at the time, none of those prophecies ever came true, and thus they paid them no heed.

Yet the world was perpetually teetering on collapse.

But still—Terra was, after all, a world imbued with Spirit Energy…

In this realm, true Prophets and genuine Prophecies did indeed exist.

Looking back now, perhaps long before the Calamity of Heavenly Fall, there was already a mighty Prophet who had foreseen this catastrophe.

At the very least, they saw the moment the Calamity occurred.

However, constrained by their era—or perhaps because they were not born in the age after Terra’s pre-epoch civilization had unified the planet and discovered extraterrestrial Sparks—this prophecy was drowned among countless false apocalyptic predictions, failing to gain attention.

Yet that dragon—the strange, otherworldly dragon—knew of this prophecy and understood its truth.

Moreover, it knew of the “Creators”… which signifies that it is undoubtedly one of the “True Dragons.”

But then, the question arises: At the time of the Calamity of Heavenly Fall, the third generation of True Dragons had yet to be born, and the Ancestral True Dragons along with most of the second generation were not on Terra’s orbit—they were near the Divine Punishment Star Nemesis.

How, then, could Terra possess such a dragon?

Even if the Ancestral True Dragons had long signed contracts with Terra’s pre-epoch civilization, cooperating together, when the Calamity occurred, they had neither the resources to react nor the capacity to warn Terra’s civilization.

The answer is, in fact, already evident.

“It’s Terra itself…”

Ian whispered softly to himself, his gaze fixed upon that colossal dragon—a giant with bones of metal and wings of cloud, roaring violently and enveloped in the planet’s atmosphere.

Its immense cloud-like hands, so massive they appeared almost like half a continent, reached into outer space to steady the falling extraterrestrial colonial cities, guiding them to “descend” upon Terra with as much gentleness as possible rather than to “crash.”

Not only that, but layer upon layer of Inscription Circuits surfaced—the entire planetary atmosphere seemed to resonate with this True Dragon.

This demonstrated that Terra’s True Dragon had once more unleashed its Dragon’s Chant, suppressing with its own effort the shockwaves caused by Heavenfall, which were potent enough to shatter the entire planetary atmosphere.

And its name…

Was [Terra]

[Terra Dragon, TerraDracô]

All True Dragons’ names, at their core, signify “The Dragon of [a place],” “The Dragon of [a planet],” or “The Dragon of [a civilization].” The varied and intricate pronunciations arise merely due to differences in how the concept of “dragon” is translated and interpreted by languages of different planets.

Of course, some civilizations may lack the concept of dragons entirely.

In such places, these formidable beings might be regarded as “Angels of [a place],” with their names reflecting that understanding.

Yet none of this obscures their true identity: the immense dragon in question—the one that recorded nearly all of Terra’s civilizations and biological data, functioning almost as the “Tera Spark”—was undoubtedly TerraDragon itself, the bridge between Terra’s civilization and the five Ancestral True Dragons, facilitating the human-dragon covenant.

This was the Terra Dragon!

A True Dragon who regarded Terra as its homeland, who devoted its all to preventing Terra’s destruction.

But faced with a cosmic cataclysm like the Calamity of Heavenly Fall—a calamity born of deep space—it stood no chance of stopping it alone.

Even if it delayed the fall of numerous massive satellite cities, even if it arduously restrained the atmospheric dispersion of the planet, even if it exerted all its strength in steering the mysterious forces within Terra’s atmosphere to deflect falling moon fragments from the shattered Looking Moon…

Terra’s civilization was nonetheless annihilated.

Incredible Spirit Energy Fluctuations swept across the globe, obliterating Terra’s network systems, which were built upon electronic and Spirit Energy pathways, in an instant.

Even the Domain of Void was engulfed by tsunamis, nearly all permanent Mystic Locks shattered, and countless automated intelligent programs malfunctioned, ultimately transforming in later eras into Voidrealm Machine Gods.

Except for critical storage devices specially fortified, nearly all civilian storage devices were destroyed, marking the first severance of civilization’s Inheritance.

Following this, catastrophic geological changes and natural disasters killed one-third of the population; the ensuing collapse of resource provisioning wiped out another third; subsequent secondary disasters and wars among survivors further culled the population.

By then, except for the emergency bunkers hastily activated to preserve basic order, Terra’s civilization on the surface was utterly annihilated.

An era of brilliance met its final End; millennia of monumental achievements dissolved into dust, vanishing in the ephemeral currents of history’s boundless ether.