The Multiversal Overlords believed they had struck a fatal blow by deleting Aethelgard. They thought the synthesizer would retreat, cower, and scramble to patch his broken world.
But, They were entirely wrong.
Neo raised both of his cosmic hands. The solid light of his throne dissolved into raw, untamed creation energy.
Buzz!
He expanded his consciousness far beyond the borders of his three million internal universes. He pushed his divine perception deep into the untamed void of the Grand Reality, the vast expanse where the external gods ruled over chaotic, disjointed realms.
He found their signature almost immediately. The external developers had left a massive, bleeding trail of corrupted static when they bridged the gap to deploy their World Eater code. Neo followed that sickening trail of crimson data back to its exact origin point.
