Deep inside the Throne World Hollow Sun, near a vast Super-Temporal Engine, lay the domain of Lahkhoz, the royal court's chronomancer.
Through this super-engine, which defied conventional theory, he could interfere with the past, present, and future of the Milky Way Galaxy to secure advantages for the entire Suhabel Dynasty.
This gave him an exalted position throughout the dynasty, but only he knew that he was far from invincible on the battlefield of time.
There were things he could not change, no matter what he did. The fate of the fleet belonging to an upstart inferior race, the Maelstrom Alliance, was one of them.
That arrogant Inferior Race had actually dared to name their own fleet the Crusade Fleet; not only had they attempted to destroy the dynasty's outer stations, but to his fury, he discovered that once the intensity of his interference exceeded a certain limit, an unknown force would interfere with his interference.
If he tried to make the entire fleet accidentally enter the Warp when it activated its Undercurrent Engines, an unknown force would move the whole fleet somewhere he could not trace.
If he tried to make the laws of the physical universe suddenly fall into disorder, an unknown force would likewise straighten them out and restore them to normal.
In short, whenever he tried to finish everything in one stroke, that unknown force would intervene to thwart his interference.
The Alliance Four Gods: "Are you nuts? Do you seriously think we don't exist?"
Lahkhoz realized that this inferior race also had opponents capable of interfering with spacetime. Furious as he was, he could only probe cautiously, little by little, trying to establish the threshold at which they would intervene.
But as he watched the fleet effortlessly halt a supernova explosion on the display, Lahkhoz found