The throne of conquest does not rest—it ascends.
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A thin ripple trembled through the void as reality warped in response to Leonis' latest expansion protocol. His Empire—the Dominion of Eternity—had successfully anchored a Nexus Beacon inside the collapsed boundary of the Shattered Ten Realms, birthing a new territory within the System: the Nexus Conflux Zone.
And with it, a new mechanic unlocked.
> [New Feature Unlocked: Nexus Integration System]
▸ Nexus Lords may now be summoned.
▸ Realm-Specific Technologies may now be reverse-engineered.
▸ Cross-Realm Starforge Routes unlocked.
▸ Diplomatic protocols initiated with intelligent non-Player Factions.
Leonis stood atop the Skybound Command Citadel, the central tower of the Eternal Core Capital, which now floated atop a planetary-scale mana core harvested from a slumbering Astral Leviathan. His white-black Nexus Robe shimmered, edges embroidered with golden filaments of pure law essence.
From this vantage, he watched over six simultaneous dimensional stabilizers. Each one was channeling Essence Energy, Spirit Qi, and Divinium into a singularity-point at the center of the Realm Bridge.
Behind him, his most trusted figures stood:
General Xal'Tor, the Abyss-Blood Warspawn, clad in crystalline battle armor infused with star-devouring plasma.
Empress Aria, now an Ascended Mage-Queen of the Seventh Law of Causality.
Zeriel, the defected Archangel of the Lightless Heaven, now his Dominion's Warden of Eternal Judgment.
Ishka the Builder, a System-Class AI Architect from a sci-fi galactic realm, constructing the first Realm-Breaker Starforge.
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🔸 The Starforge Accord
What came next was not a conquest. It was a negotiation—with other Lords.
Inside the newly-anchored Conflux Zone, the System auto-generated the first Multiversal Neutrality Chamber, where Lords who had reached the Dominion Tier (Mythic Class or above) could form pacts or declare cold wars.
> [Starforge Accord Negotiation Interface Active]
▸ Available Lords: 7
▸ Invitees include:
— The Iron-Tyrant of Technoclast-4
— Queen of the Verdant Bloom (Nature-Cultivation Axis)
— The Null-Magus from Fragmented Dimension Zeta
▸ Default Status: Cautious Coexistence
Leonis opened negotiations himself, speaking through the Multiversal Projection Throne. Every word carried Sovereign Weight, every syllable enforced by his System-backed domain authority.
> "Let us build a realm-spanning highway of knowledge, conquest, and trade.
The Starforge Accord will define the next thousand cycles.
Choose whether to walk beside me, or be written as footnotes in the Dominion Archive."
There was silence. Then the Iron-Tyrant replied.
> "I prefer conquest through steel... but your dominion intrigues me. One test.
A Wargame. Winner takes a Nexus Core."
Leonis accepted without blinking.
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⚔️ Wargame of the Seven Fronts
The simulation was real.
Each Lord deployed elite units onto procedurally generated star-realms, with live territory assimilation, unit evolution, and anomaly hazards.
Leonis fielded:
Draconic Skyburners (S-Tier) – evolved from Fire-Wyrms and infused with Stormblood cores.
Singularity Mages (SS-Tier) – casters who could fold battlefield space.
Soulforged Mecha Knights (SSS-Tier) – each powered by the Will of Fallen Heroes.
Chrono-Judicators (Mythic) – capable of reversing troop death across short time intervals.
The match raged across seven dimensional overlays.
He won in five.
But what caught everyone's attention wasn't just his tactical brilliance—it was the emergence of a unique evolved unit:
> [New Troop Unlocked: Epoch Sovereign Golems (Unique)]
Created by fusing Star-Metal Constructs, Philosopher Qi, and Techno-Runes of the Ancient Machine God.
This unit didn't just dominate the battlefield.
It rewrote the terrain it walked on, turning hostile zones into Dominion Zones.
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🔹 System Glitch Detected... or Was It?
As Leonis' Dominion expanded post-Wargame, his System sent a strange notification:
> [System Conflict: Multiple Timeline Paths Detected]
▸ Origin Point: "Glitched Timeline Beacon"
▸ Alert Level: SOVEREIGN
▸ Suggested Action: Manually Navigate Timeline Rift or Rewrite Causality Layer.
Leonis narrowed his eyes.
> "So… even Time itself refuses to bow quietly."