Chapter 1831 - 1353: Master of Void Realm

Long, long ago, before reality was divided into six realms, a pastoral era existed on a lone planet, where the daughter was born into the Starship Fleet leader’s family and was named Filly.

It was said she was silent at birth, learned to read and write by six months, exercised by the age of one, and by three, could guide her father to avoid a conspiracy.

It was an era when the mage held the lowest status, and the Gods of Four Pillars were at their strongest. The Divine Domain was infinitely close to reality, violence, conspiracy, plague, and indulgence seeped onto the canvas of the earth like dyes from a melting frame, while mages, as the most inspired group, were most likely to hear the whispers of the Gods of Four Pillars, and fall into insanity, losing themselves.

Under the full moon at night, mages would transform into ferocious werewolves, where only flesh could satisfy their unsuppressable hunger; in sweet dreams, mages would unexpectedly grasp a new miracle, and half-awake, would experiment on family and neighbors; in thunderstorms and lightning, a mage would melt into sludge, merging all living beings within a hundred miles into one; when thick fog rose from the earth, all races would desire to procreate with mages, giving birth to indescribable abominations within a day.

Only sects that worshiped the Gods of Four Pillars existed on the continent; conflicts were constant between sects and much internal strife occurred. Only mages who joined the sect could receive the Blessing of the Gods of Four Pillars to not lose their rationality, but joining required surrendering one’s mind as the lowest slave to be devoured by the Gods of Four Pillars in the Void Realm.

If mages did not join a sect, they were despised as "untouchables" by commoners, mages falling to madness at any time could destroy a city and would be reported to the Evil God Sect, where the Evil God Mage would capture wild mages, resulting in execution or complete submission to the Gods of Four Pillars, accepting a degraded existence at the mercy of others.

The greater the power, the greater the disgrace.

The smarter one was, the greater the shame.

The Gods of Four Pillars completely overturned the truths of the world, transforming the Void Realm into a terrifying curse, placing an unshakable shackle upon mages.

Filly grew up healthy within the Starship Fleet, a unique power of that era that chose to leave the bountiful continent, wandering the seas for years, amassing resources through trade, avoiding the conflicts of the Evil God Sect as much as possible. The fleet navigated using astrology, confident that the stars guided direction and revealed the Fate of all beings, thus they developed a set of astrology named after their star-gazing practices.

By the age of six, Filly was already involved in fleet trade, using various sources to perceive changes in the supply and demand of goods, helping the fleet earn excess profits each time. The fleet was pleased with Filly’s talents but also worried about her intelligence.

In that era, intelligence was the cruelest curse.

The transformation occurred when Filly was seven, while accompanying her father to the port for purchases she encountered slave traders selling young boys and girls displaced by sect wars. She chose to use her pocket money to buy them all, appointing the prettiest little girl as her maid.

As the Starship Fleet grew, at the age of twelve, Filly’s parents were suddenly murdered in their sleep, with her uncle accusing Filly of entering the Void Realm and becoming a mage, thus killing her parents under the full moon night. He intended to hold a mage hunt to execute his niece. Due to her usual brilliance, the fleet members feared and distrusted Filly more and more, believing she would someday become a mage, agreeing with the uncle’s claim that Filly was the murderer.

When Filly was unable to defend herself, her silent maid suddenly acted to kill her uncle, admitting she heard the tyrant’s murmurs and murdered the leader’s couple. Filly could easily execute the maid to escape the storm, yet she vowed to protect the maid, analyzing clues to prove it was the uncle who murdered her parents, persuading the fleet members.

However, mages faced either execution or being sold to other sects. Facing the tumultuous public sentiment of the fleet, Filly expertly delayed boarding time until encountering a pirate attack on the fleet, where there was a mage polluted by the tyrant among them, and the fleet could not contend. At this moment, Filly freed the maid’s cage, and together they repelled the pirate attack.

When the dying pirate mage was captured and murmured in his sleep, Filly held his hand, comforting him, leading him suddenly out of madness into repentance for his deeds.

At this moment, Filly declared she could purify the mage’s contamination, allowing mages to escape the corruption of the Gods of Four Pillars. Due to the pirate mage’s repentance and the maid’s obedience, coupled with Filly’s longstanding reputation, the fleet chose acceptance despite doubts.

No one knew if the pirate mage’s sanity was a stroke of pure luck or Filly’s Magic Power. But before long, at the port, the fleet coincidentally encountered an Evil God Mage pursuing wild mages, as a wild mage hid within the fleet’s cargo, Filly urged everyone to shelter her.

Then came the third, fourth, fifth... by the time Filly was eighteen, the fleet housed ten mages, all female mages, serving as Filly’s maids.

Since no events of falling into madness had ever occurred in all these years, everyone believed Filly truly could purify the Gods of Four Pillars’ corruption. With the covert support of the mages, the Starship Fleet gradually became the strongest force at sea, even managing to grow and harvest crops onboard.