Above the Jiuzhou Continent, daylight died.
It didn’t fade through the gentle hues of sunset, nor was it swallowed by approaching storm clouds. The sky simply shifted into a rhythmic, pulsating crimson.
STROBE. STROBE. STROBE.
Every twelve seconds, the entire dome of the heavens flashed with a burst of blood-red light. He cast jagged shadows across five sovereign empires.
Then, bleeding through the clouds like ink through wet paper, huge glyphs assembled across the stratosphere:
[ROOT ENTITY DETECTED] [NON-CANONICAL CODEBASE IDENTIFIED ON SECTOR 7] [Starting RECURSIVE PURGE OF MESH Hall] [DEPLOYING FIRST EPOCH INQUISITION SCRIBES]
The ten-mile-long characters pulsed with a heavy power that weighed upon the soul of every fighter in the realm.
In the old family tombs of the Great Qi Imperial Necropolis, an ancient emperor stirred within his jade sarcophagus. It trembled at the omen. “The Taboo of the First Gods has awakened... The Red Bright light has returned!”
