The astoundingly beautiful celestial heaven. A disc of shimmering gold surrounded by the shine of stars, floating in the darkness of the world.

A great castle stood at the centre of the Celestial Heaven, hundreds of meters tall, the towers and parapets rising towards a starless golden sky. Each structure carefully and expertly built of gold, adorned with exquisite decorations, a true testament to the divinity of its creator. Forever standing, timeless in a timeless place. At the edges of the celestial heaven stood four large gates, one for each of the four directions, each in turn contained within the translucent coloured shield in the shape of an orb that protected this realm.

The four entrances to this realm were unlike anything else built in this place beyond time. The gates of the heavens were made out of naturally formed tree branches, each growing in a way to form the gates themselves, decorated with leaves and fruits like any normal tree. Each of these quaint little gates led to a path, the four pathways were the route to the mortal world, used continually by the armies of heaven to go to the realms beyond and vanquish evil wherever it may stand.

At least that's what it was normally used for: But not today, for today a tragedy was happening.

The shield was facing the brunt of terrifyingly strong consecutive attacks, it was slowly chipping away with every attack it faced. The cracks were spreading like spider webs across the surface of the shield.

A soldier with golden armor like everyone else standing there to face the enemy was kneeling in front of the four people. They also wore golden armors but the armors design, pattern carved across their armors and their presence themselves distinguished them from the other soldiers, there were the generals of heaven's army, the four heavenly generals.

The soldier opened his mouth to report,

"We're facing an attack from the void, the attacker is an extremely strong being, and the shields won't be able to hold out for much longer. We may have to request the assistance of His Majesty, my lords."

"Blasphemy! Is the the heaven's army so incompetent that we would resort to take shelter behind His Majesty? We exist here with the sole purpose of protecting this realm, we did not slaughter not millions but billions of monsters in the dark age to back down now. Even if facing the opposing army means death we must keep our stance firm."

"bu..but there is only a single person attacking, my lord."

"What!? Did they dare to come here alone? We will face the attacker in the north gate, I command every single soldier to be ready to draw blood."

The heaven's army gathered at the northern gate, but the attacks still did not stop, the shield was hit again and again, and not before long the shield broke. The four heavenly generals barked the orders to take a stance for upcoming attacks from the assailant, but no attack came towards them. A woman was slowly descending towards the ground.

She softly landed on the ground, and one of the generals stepped forward, "Who are you? Identify yourse-" The sentence was cut short, he felt the weight of the world on his being. It was heavy, the pressure was already too much but it was gradually increasing, their innards were mostly destroyed by now, and they were barely sustaining themselves. One of the generals, with all his might, turned his head to see what situation his soldiers were in.

Without any surprise, all of the soldiers were squished to death and got splattered across the ground just by the presence of the assailant, their armors had become dust on the ground, and there was nothing to even make out of the bodies, only the generals were there and their whole body was bloodied.

The generals were awestruck by the display of such power, they expected the assailant to be extremely strong when the assailant broke down the shield with relative ease but they couldn't believe someone strong enough to wipe out the heaven's army without raising their hand would come here. There were only a few beings who could do that and this woman was none of them.

The generals were known for their bravery to face their enemy without backing down but not today, not now. She vaporized the generals with a flick of her hand before extending her presence to the whole celestial heavens and squashed every being upon it.

She flew towards the centre of the celestial heavens at an unimaginable speed, the castle was millions of kilometres away from the gates, it may have taken a few hours to reach the castle for many people but she was there in seconds. The golden pathway extended up to the high doors of the castle, the doors were closed but that wasn't any problem for her, the doors crumpled under a single punch from her.

The castle was large, there were hundreds of pathways and the way to the main hall was complicated so she simply broke walls, and then walked straight towards the main hall. The main halls were extremely quiet except for the sound of rubble falling from the hole she made with her punch. Even with all this destruction, The Heavenly king was sitting on his high throne unbothered by the rampaging guest. He slightly raised his head and looked at her with his face devoid of emotion.

''You have come at last, Ikyana. Is this your last-ditch effort? I waited for you for 2000 years, you waited for too long to take any actions, do you want to try ending all of it at last?''

Like the Heavenly King, she also did not show any emotions but her fist was clenched tightly and without answering back or waiting for him to say anything else, she threw a punch towards Heavenly King. That punch tore up the space between them, the space punch was already in front of Heavenly King.

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Heavenly King took the punch head-on, and the shock wave from the collision made the castle start crumbling, a kick from above followed that punch. Although it was not a space-shattering attack Heavenly King still didn't want to intercept it while his arms were healing from the damage of the last attack, so he jumped left, unfortunately, his pace slowed down to the extreme, so much so that he was barely moving. The green energy from Ikyana bound him, and the kick barely grazed his right chest part missing its mark of hitting his head. Even under the influence, he dodged the attack.

Ikyana unleashed another one of her attacks, and with his fully healed hand, Heavenly King king intercepted the attack generating massive shock waves. Ikyana was blasted out of the castle. The castle and every building in the vicinity of a thousand kilometres were reduced to tiny pieces. Ikyana flew back to the place where the castle stood a few seconds ago searching for the heavenly king.

''You should try your best to not get killed by me so easily'' said Ikyana and she manipulated her surrounding materials to become sharp spikes and hurled them towards the heavenly king who was emerging from the rubbles unharmed by the previous attack.

''You talk a lot for someone who is just a husk of their former self. How much power do you have left now? Can you last ten thousand years? Maybe twenty thousand years? Why are you against me when I am the only one with you, Ikyana? You were the one who suffered most from the Law of Fortune in the dark age, if I succeed then you will return to your former glory, but even then you're trying to stop me, **Why?**" beams of golden energy left Heavenly king and intercepted the spikes, both attacks destroyed each other.

"It does not matter Heavenly King, since the connection with the creator was cut off this was our destiny like every other world out there. You won't be able to regain connection with the creator even if you collect all six of my essence so just give up and return the essence that is rightfully not yours" said Ikyana and got ready to launch a new attack.

Ikyana jumped high up in the air and dived back to give another punch to the Heavenly King and he took it head-on, it created massive shock waves travelling through the celestial heaven. They were just punching and kicking each other now, there was no technique in their fighting, only massive powers blasting at each other. They took others' punches head-on and healed the damage in a second, it was becoming a fight of attrition.

Ikyana took two attacks while readying an attack, she did not even heal herself, the glowing purple fist met Heavenly King's chest, and the winner of this particular clash was clear. Heavenly king who was kneeling and panting heavily was met with another quick kick to the chest and was sent flying. Ikyana arrived in front of him, "The essence of destruction does not belong in celestial heaven, return it to the void of destruction and I will forgive you."

The heavenly king suddenly started laughing hysterically and black miasma started rising from the corpses of everyone that died in celestial heaven by Ikyana's hand, all of it flowed towards the place where the fight was happening, and all of the miasmas became thicker and thicker the all of it transitioned into a black goo-like substance and it was surrounding the Heavenly King, even the Heavenly King himself started to take the form of surrounding black matter.

"What have you done!?" she questioned in disbelief. "Did you combine the essence of destruction and life? With this, the world will never be the same again, and the balance between creation and destruction will be more awry than it already is. The law of fortune is going to be invoked now and it will hunt you down, the balance as a whole was already tilting when you tried to gain the essence of death by destroying the system of reincarnation by invading the underworld but now it can't be fixed with anything we do!"

"SHUT UP. You don't know anything, I can't keep playing world here when I know my demise will be in this lowest level of hierarchies. Let the law of fortune come to me, I will have the true law of fortune in the palm of my hand and I will make my own path to the true heavens above and nobody can stop me, I will pay every price I can pay to win this war." With a wave of his hand, the black matter surged forth towards Ikyana.

She raised a wall from the materials around her and they were swept away like dust to the wind. The attack grazed her barely and it was enough to burn away her skin and the black matter that touched her hand started eating her hand. She immediately cut off her hand then she punched the space with her other hand and made a space rift so she could escape.

The Heavenly King attacked her again and she quickly jumped into the rifts of space but the rift took damage from the attack before closing and it broke, Ikyana was thrown off to random coordinates, his prey was in his grasp but Heavenly King did not bother chasing after her or rather he could not.

The celestial heaven was quiet again, it was destroyed beyond recognition, but with just a flick of hand all of the celestial heavens were restored to their former state and all of the residents were revived. Heavenly king had already returned to his normal form and went back to his throne to sit like always, the same as how he sat for the last 2000 years but not for long.

***

Oh shit! That bastard hit the rift and now I'm falling who knows where but even if I landed back in my world nothing would have changed. She sighed thinking about it, Ikyana tried her best with the little power she had to make everything correct but it went horribly wrong.

*Nothing from our world can do anything about it anymore, I should just think of a way to preserve anything I can from my world if I somehow managed to survive here and get back. She was saddened but there was nothing she could do when she was floating in the outer void.

As she was drifting aimlessly, she saw someone else. It was supposed to be almost impossible for something to survive here but she could feel the vitality from the body, there was a young boy who was floating in the void unconsciously and his body structure was the one thing that indicated he was a young humanoid.

He did not have a face or a better way to tell this is his face was blurred. This was the characteristic of higher beings and this boy being here means only one thing, he was a *Fallen.* The boy being a fallen was confirmed so devised a plan to save the world.

"Hello Mr. Fallen, I know you can't hear me but I will be borrowing your soul for a great purpose." She pulled his soul out of his body and transferred all of her authority over the six essences to him, some were weak some were strong but creation was the most he had. Now the most challenging part of all this was how to send this body to her world but she was only trying to send his soul so it was not that big of a problem as long there were markers on the other side.

I may also have to leave my body here to get back home. If I don't let the law of fortune take control of me then it will choose him and I can't let it happen. I don't think it's a problem as long as I can subtly guide him towards the right path, all will go the right way. It looks like there is a chance I won't make it back, it's a gamble now but, my life depends on this working so let's hope.

"Mr. Fallen, let us hope we both reach there safely."

"MAY THE FORTUNE BE WITH YOU."