His Inner Dominion cracked.
It was not the controlled expansion of territory growing beyond previous boundaries, but the violent fracturing of architecture that had been subjected to force exceeding its current capacity to contain!
The Realm of Assimilation split along lines that blazed with light pouring through the gaps, territories that had housed consumed existences and integrated memories and the foundations of his advancement suddenly hosting something that dwarfed everything they had previously contained.
The fracturing spread.
His internal existence began melting at its edges, the boundaries between his Realms dissolving under the pressure of integration that demanded more space than his current Inner Dominion architecture could provide without restructuring itself from the ground upward.
