"RUMBLE!!!"
The void trembled as the forces of the Nine Empyrean Suns Universe Alliance advanced. Space shuddered beneath their march, and around them the Matrix of the Universe manifested with a radiance brighter than anything it had ever revealed before.
It was as though the Universe Will itself could feel the resolve flowing through its warriors, channeling in them the power to face the nightmarish that stood in their way.
It did not take long for the vanguard to reach the gates of the Heart of the Root. The moment they arrived, the immense rotting biological landscape convulsed. The surface heaved like diseased continents, and then—bursting from fissures that tore open across its flesh—thousands upon thousands of spawns erupted outward. They surged in waves, a rolling tide of rot and deformity capable of swallowing stars.
