The same moment that the Elder Summit was taking place in the Southern Continent...
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The Void between the stars.
There was no land beneath their feet, no sky overhead—only the infinite void of space stretching beyond mortal comprehension. Here was where the battle between existence and entropy raged, even light itself struggled to persist. This was the Frontline, the edge of this universal reality where the forces of Nexaria's peak stood against the ever-consuming hunger and gluttony of the Abyss.
A thousand burning stars from the fractured solar systems in the region flickered all around in the distance, their celestial glows casting faint illumination over the battlefield, but they were dimmed by the red-black corruption spreading across the void.