Buying a World Cataclysm as a slave may take a few years... but it's doable.
Securing a Nexus Being, though? That's an entirely different nightmare.
Decades of Theo's covert work in the underworld—using shadow swords and hidden agents—had yielded just one rental. A rental.
And every major syndicate or hidden order that possessed a Nexus Being as a slave had the same response to offers of purchase: absolute refusal.
Theo's anger at their reactions burned in his chest, but... deep down, he understood.
A Nexus Being—this kind of existence—might have once been a planetary emperor, or a general serving a Millennial Emperor, or even a formidable nomadic warlord whose very name once sent systems trembling.
These people don't go quietly.
They kill themselves rather than be captured.
And if one does get captured? Finding a ritual or enchantment to keep them obedient is near impossible.
So if someone actually managed to enslave one… there's no way in hell they'd sell them. Ever.
