The announcement came at dawn, and it came to everyone at once.
Not to kingdoms. Not to leaders. To every single living thing in the Realm of Kings and Puppets, from the Six Empires at the top of the layer down to the smallest settlement that had never fielded a fighter in its life.
Almond was standing in the kitchen garden behind Ainen's restaurant when it landed, and he knew from the way the light changed that this was not an ordinary posting.
[World-Ending Event: The Ascension Convergence.]
[Difficulty classification: Beyond all prior records.]
[Victory condition: The ten highest-contributing Kingdoms and Empires will be elevated to Tier-100. The ceiling of this layer will be broken for the first time in recorded history.]
[Failure condition: This layer will be reset.]
[Clarification, provided by request of the Six: a reset removes all life currently present in the Realm of Kings and Puppets. There is no partial outcome. There is no survival on failure.]
