Chapter 84
Throneworld Broadcast — Council of Blood Oracles
"By ancient decree, the Ascendance Trials shall not be won through birthright, but by victory.Let the heirs of the Prime Worlds prepare.One will rise. The rest will bleed."
Across the galaxy, the Kargal Empire's Prime Worlds ignited.
No longer a ceremonial contest, the Trials had become war in miniature—a sanctioned purge between heirs, sanctioned by the Voidscarred Codex itself.
Duels. Invasions. Assassins wrapped in relic-fire.
Victory would forge the new Emperor.
Prime World – Odyssar
A colder world, veined with deep-blue ore and pulsing with dead gods' neural-tech. Here, Prince Ody, thin and veiled, stood before a projection of the others.
His voice was soft, almost bored.