Credit for prologue goes to EternalDawning

In each universe and galaxy, there exist many mysteries for others to unearth, teeming with wonders and secrets alike; all filled with planets of hope, despair; and sometimes even both.

Millions of life forms coexist and collaborate with each other, while others live as colonies, shifting into civilizations. Others live heedlessly of what's going around because they're not advanced yet. Take us, human beings, as an example.

Under the reign of the United Committee of Planets, entire galaxies prosper. However, such generosity can come at a high price...

A distant planet called Zlocu, far east in the Milky Way galaxy, was reviving from a devastating civil war between rival houses. In the wake of this war, a powerful, savage general by the name of Malgan Tormentradi advocated for the period of peace to end and took power through a coup in the kingdom that won the war.

In his own words, it precluded the natural progress of the universe itself and all life forms in it. He claimed that peace had destroyed a natural form of progress, causing the newest generation of people to become weak. And it led to the suffering the planet endured because of the civil war. All because of passive praying and help. Something that meant stagnation and humiliation to him. Something that he was prepared to do, anything to prevent, both for other races and his own planet. All to make sure it would not happen ever again in his eyes.

As humanity licked its collective wounds following a 40-month war that ravaged large sections of the world, something not seen since the World Wars, it was blissfully oblivious of the destruction heading its way.

While the markets crashed, creatures were slaughtered.

While the governments enacted new laws, lands filled with life were torn apart.

How many planets and civilizations had fallen at the hands of a tyrannical empire?

And just like the unassuming beings who flow seamlessly in uncharted land, feeling confident of no further danger coming their way as they leave the rest to fix it, one hunter would be enough to turn their heads. The truth is heading towards them. And an unlikely place just witnessed such a predicament.

The dire year of 2026, one supposed to be of peace, now turned into war right when Zlocu arrived.

Nothing can stop them. Nothing can stop Zlocu from their tyrannical and evolutionist ways.

Not the many governments of Earth, not the other space civilizations, not even the combined strength of the galactic community; no one can resist them.

Until at the last moment, four bright lights emerged...