By the time Effie and Sunny reached the Ivory Tower, the rest were already there.
They had seen the unusually lively streets of Bastion on the way. The growing crowd of prominent champions of the Human Domain gathered on the pier of the Castle, waiting for a ferry to come and take them to the Ivory Island… where, without a doubt, representatives of the Immortal Flame clan would shine a light on the preposterous rumors swiftly spreading across the world.
The rumors that Asterion, the Dreamspawn, was back from the dead and claiming his place as the third Sovereign of humanity.
'Damn it all.'
Things had gone much more smoothly when Mordret suddenly attained Supremacy. Now, everything was in chaos. The Fire Keepers were supposed to deal with the turmoil, but with one of their leaders gravely wounded and the other busy treating her wounds, they fell into inaction. None of them knew who Asterion was, anyway…
Because simply knowing about his existence had seemed dangerous once.
