The moment *Unite* activated, the fundamental architecture of the world changed.
It did not occur with the violent, catastrophic pyrotechnics or the explosive displacements of elemental energy that everyone had come to expect whenever a high-tier Authority underwent a major evolution. This transition was far quieter, carrying an absolute, structural profundity that made it infinitely more dangerous to the existing order of the cosmos.
The golden chains of light connecting Orion's soul core to the survivors did not merely grow brighter. They began to multiply. Thousands of burning filaments split into millions, and those millions spun outward into billions, slicing through the local space-time fabric to stretch across continents, cross vast oceans, and pierce through the boundaries of hidden kingdoms. The web expanded into every remote corner of reality that had ever been touched, cultivated, or altered by the legacy of the Sovereign Path.
