Though the destruction of Kukulkan's fortress marked a stunning victory, Vlad did not linger to bask in it. To him, triumph on a battlefield, no matter how grand, was only one step on a much larger path. His vision stretched far beyond the Dark Land. Even this Doomsday World was nothing more than a fragment of a grander design, a single piece on an enormous cosmic board.
The true war, the war for the survival and ascendance of Terra and the Xaos Kingdom, would begin only when they brought the fight to the homeworld of the Vorometallicae Race. That was the battlefield that truly mattered.
