Cast Aside by the Land of Light, I Awaken the Dark Core and Command the Power of Arbitration

At the Land of Light council's tribunal, Ling is branded a “discarded child of darkness”, all because the fragments of a Dark Core awakened inside him conceal the shocking truth behind a balancing plan from three million years ago. Zero's Plasma Spark Slash closes in on his throat, while Leo's flying kick smashes the cage apart. At the critical moment, Mo Lin, a palm-sized black-scaled symbiotic beast, bursts its scales to protect him. A blue-and-silver interlocking cube reveals his father's dying wish: “Take command of the power of arbitration and restore the balance between light and darkness.” From fleeing an abandoned experimental zone to enduring trials in the L77 Nebula; from clashing with Lester, a blue-and-red mixed-blood officer, to using Hikari's light-particle technology to suppress the Dark Core's backlash, Ling plays the pig to eat the tiger as he unlocks his Star Core form and Light-Dark Arbiter form. Every upgrade comes at the cost of Mo Lin shedding scales, and every step forward depends on clues in Lester's mother's notes. When Athos controls a giant beast of light in an attempt to monopolize the universe's energy, Ling raises his Star Core Arbiter's Staff and tears away the council's hypocritical facade in the name of a “villain”: “True justice has never been a matter of black or white!” Belial's remnant soul whispers from the Shadow Nebula, while his younger sister's signal flickers at the edge of M78. This path of arbitration, which began in the Land of Light, will ultimately rewrite the laws governing energy throughout the universe...