Introduction: 999,999,999 universes have fallen. Against their own volition, creatures that represent the very embodiment of Hope bring eternal damnation to the universes they inhabit - tearing even the very blackness of space apart for the destructive Nullforce to invade. With every universe's death, another is birthed, its cycle watched by the enigmatic Highest Mage; the only one known to be able to endure the Nullforce's ruination. The billionth universe has been born, another set of billions upon billions of lives to be ripped apart by the unwitting force of Hope....