The thirteen Void Walker Primes began to manifest simultaneously across all accessible dimensions. Not as enemies, but as aspects of a single consciousness that had fragmented across multiple realities for purposes that the current humans could not fully comprehend.
Sarah felt the collective consciousness beginning to destabilize as it tried to process the magnitude of what was occurring. The transformation that had seemed so important, so world-altering, was revealed to be merely local. A single thread in a tapestry that extended across dozens of realities.
"What is the Convergence Protocol?" Sarah asked Alexei, remembering fragments of language that she had encountered in the oldest texts of the archive, terms that had not been explained in the cultivator teachings.
"The Convergence P
