Before Earth.
Before portals.
Before even the tension between Black Light and the Absolutes.
There was the First Light.
It did not shine.
It was.
Creation and destruction coexisted within it—birth and annihilation in a single pulse. From its residue came the Absolute Beings, formed from law, mana, and primordial structure.
But something unexpected also happened.
From the distortions between the First Light's creative surge and its destructive recoil… anomalies formed.
Not Absolutes.
Not mere entities.
Sovereigns.
They were not born of structured law.
They were born of conceptual dominion.
Dreams.
Time.
Space.
Primordial Darkness.
Light.
Fire.
Command.
Perception.
Dragonic Dominion.
Each Sovereign embodied something fundamental — not as servants of the First Light, but as independent rulers of specific aspects of existence.
And that was the problem.
The Absolutes could create multiverses.
They could erase them.
But the Sovereigns?
They did not create.
They did not destroy.
They overrode.
Silas could command all dragonic life across layered realities without asking permission from law.
Julius could freeze timelines in defiance of cosmic structure.
Nar could extinguish light that the First Light itself had birthed.
They were anomalies.
Not stronger than the Absolutes outright.
But dangerous.
Because if pushed to extremity, they would not hesitate to die killing everything around them.
Agoth understood this before the others did.
He saw the pattern.
The Sovereigns were not threats individually.
They were threats collectively.
And Sovereigns had something the Absolutes did not.
Ego.
Pride.
Independence.
They would never kneel willingly.
So Agoth did not try to break them.
He engineered leverage.
There was a convergence — a manufactured crisis.
Agoth orchestrated the collapse of a mid-tier multiversal cluster, blaming instability between Sovereign domains.
He manipulated causality so that distortions appeared to originate from Sovereign interference.
Julius was the first to notice.
He attempted to reverse the damage.
But Agoth had already prepared.
The Absolutes deployed a weapon not of destruction—
But of extraction.
They targeted the core fragments of Sovereign authorities.
Not their power.
Not their bodies.
But the crystallized anchors of their dominion.
Each Sovereign possessed one.
A concentrated essence — an authority node — linking them directly to their conceptual dominion.
Agoth isolated them during the crisis.
Silas was lured into a collapsing dragon realm.
Julius into a paradox fracture.
Melias into a spatial inversion.
One by one—
The Absolutes separated the Sovereigns from their core anchors.
They did not strip their power entirely.
That would cause backlash.
They severed the amplification conduit.
The Sovereigns retained strength.
But not autonomy over their full dominion.
Agoth then presented them with a choice.
Fight now—
And risk permanent fragmentation of their authority.
Or—
Cooperate temporarily while the crisis stabilized.
The Sovereigns calculated.
And agreed.
Not because they were defeated.
But because they understood something.
If they went all-out, the First Light's residual structure might collapse into Black-Light-level entropy.
And none of them knew what would rise from that.
Agoth did not chain them physically.
He chained them politically.
He controlled their authority cores.
And as long as those cores were held—
The Sovereigns could not escalate to total war.
But Agoth underestimated one thing.
Sovereigns do not forget.
And they do not forgive.