The afternoon sky above the Central Star-Cluster (The Galactic Capital) turned pitch-black in a single heartbeat, as if someone had upended a celestial vat of rotting corpse-ink across three thousand light-years of the firmament!
From the three colossal abyssal vortexes torn open above the [Ten-Thousand-Star Galactic Arena], three towering, skeletal figures descended slowly through the void.
Their robes were stitched from the grey pelts of extinct void-beasts and embroidered with blackened silver runes that pulsed with suffocating necrotic decay. Their skin hung tight over their ancient collarbones like dry yellow parchment, and their ten-foot-long white beards were crusted with sixty thousand years of underground star-core frost.
Most terrifying of all, rotating behind their hunched backs were Three Compressed Rank-9 Mid (Galactic Sovereign Mid-Stage) Dark-Matter Galaxies—each one carrying the cold, lifeless gravitational mass of fifty billion devoured stars!
They were the Three 60,000-Year-Old Galactic Supreme Grand Elders of the usurper line:
1. First Supreme Grand Elder Gu Cang;
2. Second Supreme Grand Elder Gu Ming-Yuan;
3. And Third Supreme Grand Elder Gu Sha-Xing!
