The sky above Threadspace burned crimson.
Time had bent, fractured by the battle that ended the Last Protocol. And now, the echoes of Elias's victory screamed across every system layer.
In cities governed by Monarchs, alarms rang like funeral bells.
> [ALERT: System Instability Detected]
Source: Infernal Monarch Elias Black
Threat Level: Omega-Class
Directive: TERMINATE IF POSSIBLE. REPORT IF NOT.
In less than two hours, ten system factions had declared Elias a rogue entity.
By hour three, four Monarchs began the hunt.
A towering man in obsidian armor stood at the edge of a crystalline cliff.
His name was Velric the Severed—Monarch of Chainlight, once a friend to Elias's father.
Now? He was a tracker for the Elders.
"I told them the boy would fall," Velric muttered, staring at the vision of Elias holding the shattered core of the Last Protocol.
"But now… he's something else."
His second-in-command, a pale woman named Lysia, stepped beside him. "Do we confront or kill?"
