The design of the system was as elegant as it was unspeakably cruel.
It was designed to aggressively connect to all "irrelevant" life forms on the planet, anything 'inferior' to a dragon. Specifically, it targeted the new, rapidly multiplying plagues of tiny creatures that were beginning to become a minor, irritating nuisance to the planet's natural ether flow.
The excuse the massive dragon offered the fractured elemental rulers was hollow, yet convenient: It claimed the system would painlessly purge the world of the vermin hiding inside the dirt without destroying anything else.
It argued that these tiny, rapidly spreading pests were beginning to exhibit deeply concerning behaviors, actively stealing microscopic amounts of the dragons' sacred ether and acting in ways that grossly violated their assigned place in the natural order.
But the Light Dragon and the Wood Dragon refused to kneel.
