The revelation did not remain confined to the command chamber for long.
Within hours, copies of Commander Reinhardt's report had reached the highest levels of the Imperial government. Military headquarters received emergency transcripts. The Imperial Research Council immediately assembled dozens of scholars. Archmages locked themselves inside laboratories. Noble families dispatched private investigators to verify every detail. The Empire had spent days attempting to understand the Tower from the outside. Now, for the first time, they possessed information from within.
And that information changed everything.
