That night, the internet didn't just buzz—it roared. Every feed, every channel, every group chat lit up with the same headline: an imperial mausoleum had been unearthed on the island of Isla.
Grainy drone footage leaked. Blurred photos of ruined towers half-buried in earth circulated like contraband. By midnight, conspiracy threads were trending. By 2 a.m., someone leaked the photos of the two sarcophagi, one black and the other ethereal white.
The single caption: Tomb of the First Emperor and Empress of Azuverda caused the servers of major news sites to crash.
Sleep abandoned the quiet lakeside town of Laguna in the province of Sentra. Sirens replaced crickets. Government SUVs with tinted windows rolled through narrow streets that had never seen this much chrome or this many guns.
Inside the municipal hall, harsh white lights burned through the night.
The Minister of National History had flown in from the capital with a full delegation in tow.
