Chapter 14 TOP NINE GUILD New Eden was a low-tier planet founded forty years ago in a distant star system far from Earth. The world looked like Earth but twice as large; its surface was mostly land, with only two seas. New Eden split into two continents: North and South. The North answered to the Aetherblade Guild; the South fell under the Brotherhood. Each region bowed to a transcendence-level ruler. Across the galaxy the truly powerful forces weren’t nations but guilds — dynasties of strength and influence. At the top sat the Nine Thrones, and the most feared of them all was the Axion Guild. Why? Because the Axions had three Supreme-level beings and a swarm of transcendence-class members backing them. “How strong is a Supreme?” you might ask. Strong enough to travel between planets w

