Chapter 94 The Shroud Of Starlight

• The silent, resonant tremor that echoed through the cosmos was a victory more profound than any battle. The ancient, mysterious being had received their message of hope and purpose. It was a faint, almost imperceptible shift in the cosmic balance, but the Veilkeepers felt it acutely.
• The Moon-Tear Shard hummed with a quiet satisfaction, its light a little brighter, its purpose a little clearer. They had not just fought a war; they had engaged in a dialogue with a force that had long since given up on the universe.
• But the cosmos never stood still, and the lull in the cosmic storm was a fragile thing. Liam's intelligence network, a constant web of data-gathering, immediately identified the next critical threat. A Veilkeeper outpost on the edge of the Veridian Prime system had detected a new kind of anomaly—not a Weaver Tendril, not an Oblivion Engine, but something else entirely. A massive, swirling cloud of dark energy had appeared, a void that did not unmake, but instead, absorbed all light. It was a "Shroud of Starlight," a deep cosmic shadow that was actively snuffing out a young, thriving star system.