Previously: The fused system crowned Leonis with multiversal sovereignty. The Dominion System, Ancestral Tycoon Protocol, and Glitched Drop Authority fully awakened. With a single command, he shifted the multiverse's axis.
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[System Broadcast: All Cosmic Realms Are Now Pieces on the Dominion Board] [New Game Mode Activated: Multiversal Chess — Victory Conditions Set]
Across fractured timelines and spectral dimensions, the announcement resonated like a divine revelation.
The skies above the Nine Heavens dimmed. Time Lords of the Eternity Loop paused their rewinds. Reality Breakers from the Abyss shuddered.
Leonis, seated atop the Throne of Dominion Writ, opened his palm.
A chessboard unfolded in golden light — each piece representing a faction, plane, or divine force.
White: The Dominion Alliance, led by Leonis, comprised of mythic-level empires, glitched warlords, and resurrected sovereigns.
Black: The Primordial Reversal — all that sought to erase causality itself.
Each piece moved. Each realm trembled.
[Summoning: Sovereign Unit — Grandmaster Veilborn, King of Illusionary Stratagems] [Trait: Each strategic deception becomes real. The lie becomes law.]
"Your move," Leonis murmured.
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Meanwhile — Outer Spiral Expanse
The Divine Cultivation Domain of Scarlet Wind erupted as Supreme Elder Yin Hualong attempted to secede from the Dominion. His forces — 10,000 Realm Crossing Saints, an army of Phoenix-tier Spirit Artifacts, and 4 Chrono-Monarchs — fell to a single unit.
[New Unit Evolution: Mythic-Tier Ascendant]
Unit: Chrono-Devourer Warden
Ability: Inverts time on enemy armies. Forces them to experience their deaths before they act.
Scarlet Wind was devoured.
Loot Acquired:
Phoenix Plume Worldship
Heaven-Tier Legacy Core
Ancestral Martial Spirit: "Fivefold Lotus Rebirth Art"
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Back at the Dominion Capital — Skydome Sigma
System Architect SIREN reappeared in her war-core form, floating among floating stardust arrays.
"System Fusion Reaches 90%. A third fusion sequence is now accessible."
[Initiating Integration: Dominion Glitch Protocol X — Sovereign Rewrite]
Leonis felt his very code expand. His thoughts now aligned across timelines. Every Leonis in every alternate world... synced.
[You are now: Multiversal Constant — The Core Lord Across All Possibilities]
His generals felt it too. Strategies began auto-synchronizing across fronts.
Wuxian Fangblade, General of Cultivation Armies: "My sword swings in one realm, and a thousand enemies bleed across the stars."
Magister Noctis, Arcanotech Prime: "Spellcode symmetry locked. Deploying Spacetime-Linked Mana Arrays."
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The Dominion Now Included:
972 conquered realms
12 Reality-Starships capable of terraforming timelines
3 Godkillers
1 Heaven-Sovereign Dragon Throne built from fused divine bones
Yet Leonis sensed the deeper threat.
The Void Beyond the Root stirred. An echo of the True Game Master.
He whispered to the system:
"Show me the board behind the board."
And space twisted.
The true chessboard appeared — with only two pieces. Himself... and a shadow.
[Warning: Hidden Player Detected — Name: UNKNOWN. Role: Origin Sovereign. Allegiance: ???]
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