"...The Crimson Plague that's lurking over there."
"....."
The moment those words reached everyone's ears, several people furrowed their brows with unmistakable concern, instinctively recalling every rumor they had ever heard regarding that mysterious force, while others broke into broad smiles, as though they had finally found something worthy of their attention amid all the tedious military planning that had dominated the meeting until now and were eager to see whether those stories truly held any weight.
"...Is there something we still don't know?" one of those present asked. He was a man seated at the very end of the table, so inconspicuous among this gathering of supreme powerhouses that he was barely noticeable, his presence hardly worth mentioning when compared to everyone else in the room, and under normal circumstances no one would have expected him to interrupt the discussion at all.
He was one of Zargul's planetary emperors stationed in Young Sector 98.
