"Ah, yes. As I mentioned, they've returned to their lands." Snapping out of his thoughts, Miguel nodded quickly and repeated what he had said earlier. 0

Cherwyn placed her clasped hands on the desk and spoke. "I think I need to know how that came to be."0

The North was still in chaos. The Karlingion front was the only one that successfully held off the invasion. Helinese Fortress was half-destroyed, and Ksanid had fallen. Many smaller fronts had also been breached. And with those breaches came a flood of monsters.0

Of course, not all of them survived. Most of the creatures tainted by the Black Wall's madness perished soon after, under the sunlight. Yet some still roamed the wilderness at night, and others had retreated beyond the demonic realms created by the crimson lightning.0

Much time and manpower were still needed to quell the chaos completely. The Crimson Legion's withdrawal was, in itself, another significant problem.0

Miguel hesitated briefly before speaking in a subdued tone. "When we realized what we had feared most had actually happened… no one was in their right mind. Everyone rushed toward the Black Wall in a frenzy, desperate to breach it. When they realized they couldn't...0