While Aether had just woken up, the rest of the Empire remained restless, buried beneath duties that refused to slow.
After the last incident involving that tall metallic figure, not a single one entered the Empires again. The barriers stayed quiet, unnervingly so, as if the land itself waited for something that never came.
No one truly understood why, but right after they captured the towering metallic figure, reports stopped entirely.
No sightings. No disturbances... It felt as though the enemy had sent their final warrior, watched it fall, and decided that continuing further held no meaning.
Everyone remained uncertain about what that silence meant, yet relief followed close behind the fear. They were glad, desperately so, that they had managed to capture the last one before it vanished like the others.
Extracting information from the figure proved nearly impossible.
