The sky above the Margin bled crimson as the Auditors made landfall.
They didn't crash into the city. They arrived with perfect and calculated precision.
Dozens of crystalline and humanoid constructs dropped into the neon-lit streets and rusted rooftops.
They possessed no faces, no armor, and no weapons. Their bodies were forged entirely from faceted grey glass that radiated an aura of pure universal law.
They were the immune system of the Omniverse. They were dispatched to collect cosmic debt and erase anomalies. And right now, Arthur Sterling was the biggest anomaly on their ledger.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"
Three Auditors landed directly at the entrance of the alleyway to block their exit.
The cobblestones didn't shatter beneath their feet. The stone simply ceased to exist because it was deleted by the conceptual weight of the constructs.
