Chapter 34: The First Resistance
[System: Dimensional Alert Network]
[Incoming Faction: Silver Banner Alliance]
[Origin: Beyond initial continental zone]
[Threat Assessment: Elite Lord-class units]
[Mission Parameters: Investigation and containment]
[Lucas’s Status: Blood Tyrant - Maximum threat]
[Selena’s Hunger: Anticipating new prey]
[Reality: Inter-dimensional conflict commencing]
Across dimensional boundaries that separate various conquest zones, the Silver Banner Alliance had received reports that defined a conventional understanding of normal Lord conflicts. Blood Tyrant classification was unprecedented in the recorded history of the "Global Lord" system, triggering responses that transcended normal factional politics.
"Commander Aurelius," a voice carrying authority from centuries of inter-dimensional warfare resonated through crystalline communication array, "readings from Continental Zone-7 exceed all known parameters. The single entity has achieved population subjugation on a scale that threatens dimensional balance."
Commander Aurelius stood in a war room that was constructed from materials that existed partially in multiple dimensions simultaneously. His elite status was reflected in armor that seemed to absorb light itself and weapons that carried enchantments from civilizations that had mastered cosmic forces.
"Blood Tyrant," he repeated with a tone that carried a mixture of disbelief and growing concern, "a classification that hasn’t been recorded for over a millennium. What exactly are we dealing with?"