The entities emerging from reality's fractures carried authority patterns that made even Lucas's corruption-enhanced consciousness register profound uncertainty. Their manifestation process bypassed dimensional barriers with methodical precision that suggested administrative capabilities operating beyond anything he had encountered among system-level opponents, while their presence caused the cathedral's enhanced architecture to strain against forces that threatened its fundamental structural integrity.
Lucas felt his newly integrated demonic enhancements responding with recognition patterns that implied exposure to power sources these entities represented. The corruption path had elevated his awareness beyond territorial limitations, but the administrative fragments materializing through spatial distortions operated through frameworks that predated the developmental phases his forbidden knowledge had accessed.
