"One-huhousand years of cultivation, fifty-thousand years wandering space starlight guiding the way, visiting thousands of gaxies and millions of worlds seeing the wonders of life and terror of death, yet reag the edge of the universe is still beyond my grasp, now it is ending" -Unknown human cultivator ~ Heavenly rebirth stage

  The [Vast tree universe], a realm of spirits beyond the physical pne above what one would call reality, a pce that gives rise to innumerable life forms and the unknown is ing to an end. The realm barrier separating the metaphysical universe from beyond has been torn to the critical point. Soon all efforts of rest the barrier will cease and the end will be set in stone.

  What has brought upon this end? Did the physical world break the taboo of never iing with that of beyond the physical pne? No. If it was simply so the physical world would be the one fag the end.

  The end for this spiritual universe es from an adversary that is inescapable for beings made of that which is but is not.

  The camity of corruption, it needs not care about the physietaphysical It exists simply because it does, it does not care for thought nht. Corruption e e in many forms, sometimes visible through ones as while other times the very thought of corruption is enough t fear to one's mind.

  Corruption of one's mind, corruption of one's body, corruption of one's soul, it may be simply a word to describe disho behavior in the physical world but here it is death.

  For beings born in a spiritual realm where a single smile make the sun shine or a single frown make the mountains cry, corruption make that smile burn the world asunder and that frown twist the very minds of those that witness it leaving nothing but broken beings behind.

  In essence corruption in an abstract world leads to an oute very muot desired.

  When a spirit bees corrupt their mind is no lht, their body bees a twisted wretched husk, and as for their spirit or soul as one might call it, it ceases to be pure as be.

  From outside the [Vast tree universe] this corruption arrived, it did not have a form one could call real or fake. Just like debating the existence of a soul in the physical realm no one really say what form corruption took when it first arrived but soon enough only nightmares remained.

  The casualties have surpassed trillions if only ting those defending the realm as billions of spirit gaxies have been silenced. Armies with ons only found in nightmares traversed the universe giving aid to spirits of all kinds and fending of the corruption as best as they could, but it was not to be.

  A red-pink light beam fred in the void releasing such a horrid screaming sound it affected gaxies a billion light years away irregardless of the ws of space.

  The beam obliterated everything along its path, be it in the spiritual or physical realm before seemingly hitting its target, the explosion caused the surrounding space to fsh and burn e then white until it left a blot space that would therefore never host life ever again. As for any gaxies in the viity, if they weren't already dead gaxies then now as billions of stars simply disappeared they are surely no more.

  No mortal beings could have seen it ing, the beam of light broke all uanding of reality, while the sound it gave off disappeared the moment the light vanished having ruly existed.

  This se took pce a thousand times across a great scar in the void of space, all in an effort to slow down the ining camity.

  Mortals in the physical realm would never know of why they died, they would never know that from beyond their pne of existence beings beyond their prehension had written them off as necessary casualties of war without so much as a say, while all the spirits in the viity could once curse at the in of that beam it would be meaningless now.

  ons that would never be used ihe most dire of circumstances lest they incur the wrath of others were now being fired withard, it wasn't to obliterate the enemy but to slow it down.

  Those inhabitants of nearby gaxies had long started to evacuate those among their people as far as possible from this madness.

  Spirits esg the various nearby ps boarded space ships of all type and sizes leaving their home ps on journeys only wishing to avoid their immi demise. Depending on the adva of each spiritual rae had reached the capability of faster than light travel while others had advao the point of iing stelr teleportation.These forms of travel differed from their physical terparts faster then light travel and teleportation, a spirit was far more versatile than a being limited by earthly fines after all.

  The physical realm had all but been abandoned, few tried to save those they hailed from seeing it as a blessing to die without knowledge of the cause.

  "Lord Ophenion, the 51st and 232nd armies have pleted their missions and have successfully retreated, they will soon be dismissed as per your order. The 187th, 195th and 314th armies report increased activity in the tral corridor, while the..."

  "Send some more messeo the nearby lower realms, tell them prioritize those that have escaped the fines of their home ps on their own first. If you take them do it, otherwise let them fend for themselves"

  "...yes lord, tinuing the status report, 12-"

  "Fet it, dismiss everyone. Let them go back for their families before it is to te"

  "As you say lord Ophenion" the voice replied not uanding what was just said.

  The surrounding attendants became silent, dismissing everyone? Would that not hasten the universe's destru? Would that not send a wave of panic across the spiritual universe?

  What about the those who live furthest from the flict, wouldn't they be uo see their families even if they go baow? Had the lord of the four void seas gone mad?

  The attendants of lord Opheniohis was the case, how many of them knew how to teleport?

  Mortals could build energy geors c po ears, ons to blow up said ps and stars and even participate in gactic wars involving even the cultivation world at the lowest level but in the end once a spirit reached the realm of body reformation they would no longer be bound by the ws of mortal life.

  Yet this did not mean they were beyond grasp, so what if they could escape death via mortal disease wheill couldn't simply teleport to the edge of the universe on a whim.

  If someone from the physical realm bends the ws of space to allow for teleportation, they may be able to traverse from gaxy to gaxy in what amount to mere moments at the cost of a gargantuan amount of energy, of course with the limitation of only being able to teleport around locations where you gather suergy and the distaraveled being limited to the stability of the energy that be gathered.

  Likewise a spirit teleport with a much higher energy efficy from gaxy to gaxy as long as they have the ability and energy to do so. But just like the physical realm energy isn't unlimited to them, they would ime to recover after telep.

  Spiritual Qi, the energy used by spirits to rule the spiritual universe could only form in pces filled with life in the physical realm.

  This energy could not be used by mortals in life, it could not be harnessed by any maes created by them and it couldn't even be observed by them, to a mortal spiritual Qi was sidered a fictitious fabrication used by spirits to lie about the real source of their power.

  As such this power whily that of the spiritual world could use was the lifeline of the spiritual realm and the binding keeping them in check.

  "Lord Ophenion please resider, if you must dismiss the united army it ot be done in haste!"

  "SILENCE! I HAVE GIVEN MY ORDERS!" Lord Ophenion spat out uo troll himself.

  The surrounding attendants spoke amongst themselves creating some distaween themselves and their lord.

  "Did the lord fall to corruption?"

  "It must be! How else you expin this?"

  "What should we do? We are no match even united"

  "We must send for aid, we ot deal with this ourselves"

  Lord Ophenion saw this hesitation being further enraged "It seems you mistake my realization for madness, so be it. Let me show you why I was named lord of the four seas!"

  "NO! Please my lor-"

  Lord Ophenion - Lord of the four seas, traitor of the spiritual realm.

  <+==  Intermission  ==+>

  An exploding star? It may be apocalyptie in the physical realm and may even hurt or even kill someo the deity transformation stage but to one beyond that point it was no different then a hot shower, even tearing space would result in nothing more then a paper cut.

  While mortals may sider ps as indispensable resources, a cultivator at body reformation stage or above simply create ps on a whim.

  This did not mean no value could be gained for such beings, simply the things such beings valued are not the same.

  <+== Intermission end ==+>

  Within the Vast tree universe innumerable spirit tis vast in size held trillions of mortal souls, mortals could not see or step foot inside of these spirit tis, only after death would one be eligible to be reborn to such a pce. These mortal souls without body were fragile and at the mercy of fate, among those trilliohen three in every one hundred was eligible to bee a spirit cultivator.

  Being reborn on a spiritual ti was not a lottery, those who lived life in a way that the scales of life couldn't determine good or evil were sent to spirit tis for final judgement. The lives of mortals on such tis could only be said to be simple.

  Teological adva of any kind was not allowed for mortals, this wasn't a rule set by cultivators but a rule of the afterlife.

  Mortal souls are there to be judged o time free from all the desires of the mortal world, if one fails to live a humble life than their soul will be judged as 'evil' turned into spiritual Qi a back to the phey hailed from.

  That was oblivion, true death.

  Mortals did not know the universe as they k was ing to an end, living their lives in ignorance as they seek their final judgement.

  Many spiritual tis on the forefront had beeroyed with all spiritual life extinguished, even the nd had been grounded down to nothing more than dust. These tis were the most unfortunate of all being the first to meet the camity, few species undergoing the trial of the soul escaped the age.

  The mortal souls within those tis are said to be fortunate by spirit cultivators for they will not have to watch as their protectors abandohey will not have to know that every passing day is ted down, the died unknowingly before they could even perceive that their life has ended once more, this time forever.

  That is not to say that only mortals couldn't get away, for even spirit cultivators the so called 'immortals' had been incapable of esg even if they used every means avaible to them.

  The only way for oo survive the current camity was to already be far from the camity, one such a ti was know as the [Emerald pine spirit] ti.

  It was a vast ti of over 4.7 billion Kms of spiritual nd with a plethora of different enviros, ecosystems and with many species entering a soul state after death heading here for their final test.

  This ti rimarily ruled by a raown as humans, a race/species that was her small ne in the grand scheme of things but held just enough power to be sidered this tis rulers.

  Currently all spirit beings whom could cultivate scoured the nds for absolutely every resource they could, for every ounce of information that could give them the edge over others, for every capable hand they could rope to their side.

  One could see entire spiritual ecosystems being razed to the ground, mountains and rivers colpsing even before the great camity reached them.

  This could be said to be wanton greed or it could be said to be desperation. To the mortals that lived in or he zones beings razed to the ground, it was Armageddon. What could once be sidered sacred nd or purgatory to those undergoing final judgement was now no different then hell.

  Peak mortal teologies pare only up to the level of deity transformation in terms of fire power, for refereneo the deity transformation stage trol aire ps fate at the lowest scale while those at the peak blow up a star and thereby affetire star system's using all their might. From the weather on the seas to the nd below, all the energies of the world could be used at will as if were a part of their body.

  To witness a mountain 30 kms(18.6 miles- about 3.5× mount everest) tall disappear in the blink of ao feel the rumbling of the nd below and to hear thunder all around you as you struggle to fight against the winds, a soul crushing moment all in fras of a sed. What was this if not the end?

  To a mortal soul what irit cultivator if not a god of the afterlife? If these beings weren't gods than who was?

  All across the ti spiritual cultivatios, family's, s, empires, kingdoms and individual races prepared everything they could for o shot at survival, o attempt to reach true immortality.

  -Salvations Arks- the st attempt at survival that was 'gifted' to the tless spirit races across the spiritual universe littered the skies in all major cities and towns. These arks were desigo act as a sort of living tomb, a pce to call home while expl the unknown beyond the border of the known spiritual universe.

  The arks could enpass vast areas from as small as 1 Km to 250 Kms(155 miles) leaving it up to the individual to fill these arks with as much possible variety as they possibly could. Of course not everyone could afford to craft arks of such gargantuan sizes so most arks are limited to 5~50 kms in size, some with double or even triple yers to make the most use of avaible space as possible.

  The vast majority of arks across the universe could only be on the smaller scale in the short ruo most high ranking cultivators falling in battle, going missing after the colpse of the united army's final campaign or simply running away, greatly hindering the evacuation efforts of the vast majority of different powers within the Vast tree universe realm.

  This did not stop people for pushing for much as they could, if they could not build the rger more intricate arks then they will build many smaller ones. After all bending space wasn't such a big deal right? Why not expand the spaside the arks even further by expanding space, that way 1 km equal 2kms or 3 or even more!

  If the ark was too small then fill it with spaations, if it was of det size then do the same on a rger scale either way. If you couldn't afford to do so then it was time to rob your neighbo raze the mountains.

  Survival was all that mattered now.

  Within the Emerald pine ti was a territory known as the Five family union, which was as said - Five families ruling over their own respective zones as to not cause unnecessary flict. If we ighe hundreds of lower families uhem than these families acted as five kingdoms that had all but the right to rule as kings.

  These five families while united in name rarely ever cooperated yet at this moment no one fought the other, while it was not so rare for them to be united as oo fight a fn threat, it was not often that they looked so serious.

  At this moment every member within their respective families loaded every resource that they had acquired into arks as they prepared to set off from their homends into an unknown future with more peril around every er then they could imagine.

  The Five family union was not a small pce, there lived 430 million mortal inhabitants roaming the cities among which over 10 million are spiritual cultivators from a wide variety es from local cultivators tn cultivators passing through rushing to their respective homends or making a bid for a spot on the Arks within the Five family unions trol.

  With so many spirits living within the borders of the Union and given the limited spa the Arks, no mortal souls will be allowed to roam the arks uhey are sealed in stasis chambers, which may sound like its very spaing but souls inhabit a chamber the size of a marble without trouble. Luckily mortal souls very rarely required much upkeep, should och be lost all will be well as long as enough remain to reinate.

  As for the living mortals in the physical realm, the arks be rge but ne enough to keep mortals alive long term, the artificial enviros could not sustain suumbers while traveling in the void.

  Many mortal ps had been taken from the lower realm a into pocket dimensions as a result, these ps would serve are zones of reination for mortals iure but as of now most had been forced into a sudo-hibernation state. While they couldn't sustain much life, a few million depending on the size and stability of the phey would be able to supply a steady flow of spirit Qi in times of need.

  The arks themselves would act like spirit tis, allowing for those in need of additional judgement to properly be judged, at least in theory. Everything was so rushed that many fot to test whether this actually worked as intended or if they had mistakenly implemehe systems required for reination improperly.

  Each family had to make a choice of how many mortals to take and how many to leave behind, this could be just a few million or tens of millions it will all depend on how mue is willing to lose.

  While spirit cultivators stay awake and mahe facilities of the arks, they would be the ones undergoing the risks of traveling in the endless void and should they fail to protect the arks while its not certain that they the cultivator will die, all mortals within the arks will certainly perish. Of course they weren't simply taking the mortals with them for free, the price of saving their lives would be the loss a little of their spiritual energy produced in life.

  A cultivator who fails to protect the life of ohey are in charge of, it will lead to ill karma from the heavens. In general cultivators used mortal souls undergoing judgement as servants ierlife and such a thing wasn't sidered a punishment due to it being sidered a trial of the soul by the rules of the afterlife itself.

  This helped to serve both as punishment from the heavens to the mortal and a to bind a spirit cultivator to the mortal realm.

  Why? Because any mortal that successfully reinates will gift positive karma to cultivators, helping to raise the luck of a cultivator attempting to breakthrough to higher ranks.

  While those that fail to reination will turn into ive karma and Qi, so while the cultivatht lower their luck they will gain a portion of the spiritual Qi created iurn.

  It is a wildly effective strategy of heaven that hihe vast majority of cultivators from ever asding beyond the heavens. After all the only way to create spiritual Qi was for the living to die aer the cycle of reination, but one ot obtain any Qi if the soul successfully reinates.

  That is to say, many cultivators would tempt mortal souls into a frivolous life to quickly gain a bust of Qi iure regardless of the ive karma gained.While those that o boost their luck would treat them well but likewise not rise in power.

  While not everyone used such methods, it had bee the number orategy for the heavens to trol the fate of cultivators.

  In total these arks from the Five family union will collectively hold over seven million awake cultivators traversing iween each ark for their daily needs, most cultivators being of low rank will for a period of time o e spirit foods albeit at a manageable rate unlike if they were mortal.

  Fasting pills that lower hunger and provide nutrition could be produced for fairly cheap in the spirit realm being easy to refine in batches with alchemy. The downside of this being that all pills are non renewable resources as many raw materials will bee unobtainable iches from here on out. One may say the fasting pill should not be difficult to produce but others will say that even a fasting pill still requires spiritual pnts to be created.

  Eventually even those would run out aswell, leaving the weak to fend for themselves and at that point all bets are off.

  This was done half iionally as there are no records within the union itself of such vessels going on voyages through the void outside the Vast tree universe on such a scale, small vessels may traverse the void on occasion but these behemoths were a whole new beast to them.

  Those that adapt to the situation fastest will be given bes to preserve their lives, while those that io keep the statue quo will only suffer.

  No one was allowed a free ride, paying quite the price to be allowed in or provide services required amongst cultivators that could possibly be required at some point into the Unknown.

  Of course these are arks owned by Five families and not some benevolent anisation, in the end the five family's will be the biggest beors from a successful und arrival at whatever the destination might be. All of it banked on the idea that they would arrive at the unknowination after an unknown amount of time. It was truly just a big leap of faith they had to take.

  One of the biggest problems to be faced iure would be all the spirit cultivators with less-thaable pasts and criminals which may have snu under disguise. After all it was not possible for everything to go perfect when you are trying to escape as quickly as possible. Many problems would arise iure some of which may be due to ill preparations while other things that should have bee behind hitched a ride or were uionally brought along.

  Sigils on the side of the vessels fred as they activated partially as a pre-unch test to make sure they actually did what they are supposed to. While things may be rushed the most important parts of w engines and defense had to be dht.

  To the mortal souls this frenzy of stru that happened over a period of a hundred years was an ei like no other.

  The past hundred years had been enough time for a few geions to strike it rich, although this wealth wouldn't follow them into reination it would make them pacified in this 'life' and as such many would fail to reinate following this event.

  "Sir Rubio our vessels are ready, the passengers have boarded and all equipment and goods have been ated for, we await your order"

  A man with dark golden hair in his te thirties looked toward the sky.

  Vessels littered the sky from top to bottom as each family fiheir preparations.

  "...We will wait a few more days, do not allow ao leave the arks from this point ohem get aced to their new home, in silence. In the meantime I will hold the celebrations for the successful pletion of the arks, the mortals we will have to leave behind now... They were our foundation. It is only right we host a celebration for them to partake"

  The man looked defeated.

  He ruled over the current geion of the five families for over a tury.

  Ever since his elders had been scripted into the united army, he had taken charge over his respective family.

  As the years passed he kept on rising both in political power and military might, eventually beied as the representative for the five family unio this moment all of it seemed so fleeting.

  As time passed ships were loaded to the brim with spiritual artifacts, pnts, animals, materials, and other needs cultivators may have throughout the journey.

  More arks and flying ships arrived in the horizon from all across the five family union joining into an armada that would being terror to any who saw it.

  Such a force had never before been gathered withierritories of the union, had such a force existed before all of this would they have quered the entire ti?

  'If we could build such a fiven our limited space, what could the other tries and empires gather?' the man sighed bitterly

  'From the east the Wood family; 14 arks 87 warships over a thousands general flying ships, from the west the Bell family; 5 arks 95 warship and several thousand general flying ships, from the north the Nordaine family; 7 arks 44 warships a thousand or so general flying ships, from the southwest es the Song family; 13 arks 50 warships and a thousand general flying ships... Thats rather surprising. pared to my 13 arks 60 warships and three thousand general flying ships it may seem ckluster but they've only retly became a great house, from where did they get such funds?'

  As mortals celebrated the pletion of the arks, the st of the passengers walked onto the ships and without any further ceremony the Arks took to the sky, speeding up seemingly without looking back at all those left behind in their homend where they grew up and lived for the better part of their lives.

  Dead bodies y at the unch ptforms of the many arks, whether they are mercy killings or simply in order to defend the ark is up to ones judgement.

  Those ihe arks stayed silent.

  For three days none were allowed to speak, none were allowed to mourn, none had the right to a voice.

  Should they speak let them join the dead.

  This se was happened in every spirit ti e p of every alien species, some on a small scale of less then five Arks, others with entire fleets of over one-hundred Arks to even thousands of ships for the major races within the Vast Tree realm.

  No one khe destination, no one could cim to have evehe entire universe or even knew just how great of a camity they faced, they had no choice but to leave. Only the top brass of each raew the true details all others had simply been given the choice of believing the warning of what was to e or not.

  Should they ighe warnings they would simply be left behind but uhe collective panic even the most ignorant person would eventually uand that they should do something.

  With the hope of finding a safe area to call home once more, with the hope of further progressing oh toward immortality few would dare think to mock those left behind.

  As for the mortals and unlucky cultivators who watched the vessels leave oer the other each had their methods of grieving, the suffering of mortals had only just began.

  <+== Echo's of past ==+>

  "Here lies the tomb of the annihition emperor of the [Red forest ti], heed my words if you covet my nd of death. 10 spirits entered my resting pd only one came out, 1000 spirits entered my resting pd only one came out, 10,000 spirits entered my resting pd only one came out. To enter is to die. To enter mearayal. To enter means- ah the word cut out, someone sshed the rest of the passage out"

  "Not that it matters, we're going to enter anyway no matter how many warning they try to scare us with"

  "Plus 10,000 spirits? This pce is lucky if it fit 500!"

  "Hahaha! Your belly alone requires the space of 50!"

  "Tch this is why you get buried in a small tomb without grandiose cims, just leave your wealth to your future det's, once you die as a spirit do you eve reborn?"

  "Heh all the better for us! Now we get to keep the loot for ourselves! Truly a selfless act from a past beor"

  "Sheesh remi to tell you guys where I'm going to be buried, let's just be careful. We never know what kind of traps may be ying in wait" the group of five gathered themselves, entering deeper into the tomb.

  Within the hour they reached a tral corridor that split into four dires.

  "Well what now, should we send a scout or backtrack? I'm seeing plenty of signs of fighting on the way in but not a single skeleton, not to be a jinx but our ces aren't looking great anymore"

  "...Well lets just go a little further. Looking at these corridors I think we guess whie leads to the main chamber" the man poi the noticably more beat up path to the left.

  "If anything I think we are too te to grave rob this pce. If what is written is true, 10,000 others have already do before us"

  "Oi this guy"

  The group kept moving forward without any iion, at this point they were either going into the final fight of their lives or simply leaviy handed. Not fifteen mier they arrived at the tral chamber where a coffin of sorts floated in the air.

  "Ah, I think we're in for a fight"

  "Yeah, otherwise the coffin woulda been looted by now aswell"

  Arming themselves the group of five prepared for the worst. An hour ter one man walked outside.

  "Haaa, This will be the fifth and final me. If I ot succeed with five of me, then I may aswell die! But these guys really weren't that strong. Or maybe I'm just to haha!" After a quick ugh the man flew into the sky.

  "The first revived eight thousand years ago and died 500 years after, the sed revived seven thousand years ago and died 700 years after, the third revived five thousand years ago and that one lived for two thousand years, as for the fourth he revived ohousands years ago but I ot say how he died... But if I'm here then he 't be alive" he looked to the southwest.

  'What is that? No! This is dangerous I must get away!' without hesitation the fifth e ran.

  From afar nothing could be seen chasing, the trees c the area prevented all but those with exceptional sight from witnessing what the man saw.

  'Run! Just run!'

  Ahead of him an endless forest with no end in sight, behind him something unknown that felt dangerous.

  'Something is wrong, the forest is too silent! My st e did not revive too long ago it wasn't this silent back then!'

  A thousaime gap, it may seem impusible that nothing would ge given that such things rarely happen in the physical realm, but in the spirit realm a tree go untouched for 10 thousand years in an open field.

  The fifth e opened his eyes and searched wide.

  'Not a single i, not a single bird, no it's worse than that even the air is stagnant'

  Behind him far far away from the tomb he ran from a corpse of a rge boar like creature with a sword stabbed though its chest y. Its deposing body was yellowed, its bones pierg its rotting flesh had started to deform into odd angles not of natural in.

  'Think think! When these guys entered my tomb everything was fine, so why did things suddenly turn this way in a matter of hours?'

  The body of the creature which should logically hold no life started to twitch. The sky turned yellow, the sound of even the mans running footsteps faded.

  '!''!...!!!' '!'

  The fifth e couldn't hear his own steps. The fifth e couldn't hear his own thoughts. The fifth e couldn't be.

  The creature began to rise, the sword logged in its chest shone brightly discharging rge amounts of smoke from where it pierced the creatures vertebrae.

  Fsh*

  All light disappeared, f the fifth e to slow.

  Fsh*

  Light returned, but the fifth e had disappeared.

  The forest stayed silent. The sky seemed to melt yellow. The creature stood still, no movements had been made.

  "Oh well this is not good, just what is that thing?" An old man with a pony tail looked at the creature from such a distance away he would be in space should he be in the physical realm.

  "Thank you for saving me senior!" The fifth e having escaped the forest showed his gratitude.

  "Don't thank me, not yet at least" the old man dreear from thin air.

  Looking towards the forest that seemed to expand forever the mahe air get heavier.

  "Senior I think it's best if we run away instead"

  "Maybe, take this" the old man replied firmly while handing the 5th e a prote treasure and a tablet.

  "It's got its sights locked in on me, use the tablet to ask for assistance from the overseer's" the old man pushed the 5th e ung him away at hypersonic speeds into a portal.

  'The overseers! Who is this old guy?' the fifth e had that final thought before he vanished.

  The old man now aloh the creature spoke.

  "That sword stuck to your chest, I've seen it once before. What was it around four thousand years ago now? The heavenly Maya wielded it, but I don't see her around and I doubt she would leave a sword to act as a seal had she not entered misfortune. So knowing this will be my final fight, I ask for your name creature"

  The creature looked toward the old man and the old man heard a thought enter his mind.

  'Corruption'

  This was the first recorded enter with the camity of corruption, as reted by the spear saint Hajl and the fifth e.

  The heavenly Maya was assumed to have entered the creature pgued by 'Corruption' before hand but her whereabouts remain unknown to this day.

  The ins of the creature still remains unknown but it is believed to be from extraic in.

  To date the creature remains elusive having escaped the destru of the [Red forest ti] and the pursuit of aermination squad. Spear saint Hajl survived with grievous injuries but states 'I will fight the beast one day, but until then my new disciple will take prece. The dread that thing gives me to this day, I fear it's only going to get worse'.

  Later records from the Phoenix pace upon receiving the report _which_they_cim_was_received_too_te_ crifies that the creature calling itself corruption should have been chased down aermi _ALL_ cost.

  Future events would prove this to be true.