Sunny had witnessed the birth of gods, the collapse of entire realities, and the theoretical restructuring of causality itself. None of it had prepared him for the sound of cosmic panic.
It started as a whisper in the emerald network—a disturbance so subtle that it might have been mistaken for routine fluctuation if not for the fact that the Inheritance System hadn't experienced anything resembling "routine fluctuation" in over three centuries. The whisper became a murmur, the murmur became a chorus, and the chorus became the kind of universal alarm that made hardened dimensional warriors check their weapons and wonder if they'd somehow missed the arrival of an existential threat.
"The Balance Keepers are requesting immediate consultation," the goblin commander informed him, her emerald marks flickering with the kind of controlled urgency that suggested problems that couldn't be solved through conventional military action. "Priority Alpha. All realities."