THE ALPHA KING'S REJECTED OMEGA QUEEN
Back in the archives, amid the chaos of scattered papers and broken inkwells, Aurelia stared blankly at a small, unassuming black metal cube sitting half-buried under a stack of old files—a high-security military memory crystal recovered from the outer ruins of the southern facility.
Without thinking, Aurelia reached out and pressed her palm against the cold metal casing.
The crystal hummed to life, emitting a sharp, blue glow. A low, synthetic voice filtered out from the internal speaker, echoing eerily off the stone walls:
"When the Moon Queen awakens, the first gate will open."
A second later, the audio playback shifted, playing a fragment of a recorded conversation between two senior lea