The Herald Arrives
The stars over Dominion cracked.
It started with silence—so deep, even the wind forgot how to move.
Then came the sound.
Not thunder.
Not wind.
A heartbeat.
One pulse. Then another.
Boom. Boom.
Elias looked up from the balcony. Mira was already sprinting across the control bridge, screens blinking red.
"Something's entering our plane," she shouted.
Aya appeared beside her. "Another system?"
"No. Worse."
Above them, the air shattered—literally split apart like breaking glass—and from that wound in reality, a Herald descended.
It wasn't a man.
Or a monster.
It was both.
Towering, wrapped in cracked armor, its head a burning orb of threads spinning like planets. Six arms. No face. And where it stepped, the ground turned black and wept code.
> [WARNING: UNKNOWN ENTITY HAS ENTERED THE SYSTEM BOUNDARY]
[IDENTIFIED: HERALD OF THE THRONES]
[NAME: MAL-ETH — THE FIRST SILENCER]
[OBJECTIVE: ERASE THE SYSTEM REBEL – ELIAS]
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