...I, Sandora Kailwei Yulaxis, ruler of the Empire's Seventy-Sixth Sky Region,
the Shilin Emperor, hereby announce that all defensive lines have collapsed. The former Seventy-Sixth Sky Region is hereby dissolved. The Old Empire calendar shall immediately cease, and today is Day 275 of Year Three of the New Empire's Revival Era. All members of the Vengeance Legion are disbanded..."
Sandora's voice echoed across every frequency. This message had been broadcast outward through the Shadow Space control core, allowing it to pass unimpeded through the firewalls of the out-of-control Vengeance Legion. At this moment, in both worlds and across every channel, this simple message—one that would overturn the world—had reached the World's End.
The Vengeance Legion was disbanded.
Though they could no longer be controlled, the most basic commands remaining within those out-of-control shells still existed. It was the final order their original controllers had left behind when their souls were separated: hold the line. But now, that order had been erased. Her Majesty the Queen had personally declared that the defensive lines had collapsed, and so everything fell apart. The impregnable Mind Barrier around the control core began to dissipate. Within minutes, it became an ordinary metal planet. The dodecahedron lost those bizarre reflective surfaces and returned to its rough form. A full-power blast from a Legion Cannon pierced straight through its shell, leaving a hundred-kilometer-wide wound through the massive machine, larger than Earth itself.
The artillery fire in space gradually thinned. The Vengeance Legion assault forces that had already reached the fleet's defensive line began to stop moving, hovering in space like suddenly frozen swarms of bees. The lights on countless giant warships gradually dimmed until they became silent space sculptures. One Vengeance Legion Space Fortress after another went dark, fell silent, then began to disintegrate from within.
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