As mentioned before, the battlefield had already taken a drastic turn for the worse, and that was even before the Divine Horrors appeared.
Despite all the time dilation Ash had used for himself over the last few cycles, only two hundred years had passed outside, a fact well known by now.
Throughout those two centuries, the Ineffable Pantheon had been coming in and out of the Prime Expanse for various reasons.
And it didn't take long before one of them introduced a game centered around the War and the battlefield itself.
By now, this game had led the deaths of not just the seven Domain Lords reported a year ago, but over twelve of them in total.
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BOOOOM!!!!
BOOOOM!!!!
The battlefield trembled under the relentless barrage of deafening explosions, as colossal surges of power collided far off in the distance.
The air hung heavy with the acrid scent of burning concepts, the faint aura of divinity, and the sharp metallic tang of spilled blood.
